Self Blue (Lavender) Silkie Thread

[Northwood Silkies]

I meant I never got one to hatch LOL

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

You do get much stronger embryos/chicks when you breed the Lavs to black/lav splits. My first two hatches out of my Lav pen this year have been very good. The chicks are strong & didn't appear to have any difficulty hatching....

 

[Hennypen]

Can someone find me a good black hen and rooster then? Must be old enough to breed. These are beautiful birds and I want some babies from them sooner rather than later.

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

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congrats.. Love it when we can finally see the first egg from our hens it never gets old.

 

[Hennypen]

I just candled one that was set 2/21 and it's still alive. 12 days?

The other ones set later are developing as well with little veins.

What's so frustrating is that the hen was a breeding hen before I bought her
so her eggs didn't have any issues there.

Would the rooster have anything ro do with it?

 

[featherbaby]

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Do you think it's fertile? Here's hoping for lots more! My lavender cockerel from them is still young and hasn't figured out what to do yet. I've got hens in the pen with him that will squat if I just speak to them, HA! I can't even pet them without them imitating a pancake on a tripod!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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For the dollars invested, you would be far better to purchase live birds and hatch from your own eggs. One reason I will not sell eggs.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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45% is way too low on humidity. What do you mean by "periodic checks"? Do you toss the eggs, assuming the embryo is dead? Open them to check? Better to leave an uncertain egg than to toss one. Just in case. I agree with adding vitamins to the breeders--both parents.

 

[Hennypen]

The eggs are definitely dead. They go from a
full look as the embryo fills the egg to what appears to be decomposition inside the shell. The first one I left in 2 days after the scheduled hatch and yep, nothing.

What should the humidity level be? This is what the hovabator 1588 is set for during the incubation phase and then you bump it up (fill the other tray) to 70% during lockdown. Never a problem with that in the past with any other egg. Have ameraucanas hatching today.

Periodic checks= when I have to fill the water tray I'll shine a flashlight down from the top of the egg while it's sitting in the turner. If it looks full it's ok, but what happens is the dead ones sort of blob up so there's a lot of clear white space w/floating stuff around the blob. It went from looking like a healthy egg to lots if floating gunk inside and no more bloodvessels anywhere.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Do you think it's fertile? Here's hoping for lots more! My lavender cockerel from them is still young and hasn't figured out what to do yet. I've got hens in the pen with him that will squat if I just speak to them, HA! I can't even pet them without them imitating a pancake on a tripod!

Nope I know those boys arent doing there busniess (lol) So I put a lovely blk pheil roo over her.. So her comes some splits