I was going to try ebay. Do you have any suggestions?
I candled too because I had to move the eggs to the turning bator. Out of the 24 Silkie eggs I set from Karen (Catdance) I have growth in 19 of them at Day 6. 3 of the 5 had blood rings and 2 were clear. The 19 that are good have GREAT veining and active little chicks swimming around. My nail polish egg (the cracked one) is part of the good group.
Don't give up. I don't think mother nature is perfect when it comes to hatching either. My 1st hatch, I had issues with the incubator temperatures. I think it was me turning the temperature control nobs too far in either direction. I had 5 out of 30 shipped eggs hatch. I have since learned to set it up the incubator temp a few days early and LEAVE IT ALONE!Hello everyone...i have good news and bad news on my part. I candled the eggs the other day and look about half are good and a few iffy ones. I started turning mine on Sunday, was doing really well until after my last turning at 2 am and woke up at around 4 am, my incubator was slightly unplugged and not on..My cats must have played by the cord and knocked the cord around...Still going to do my turning and regulate the heat and humidity.I had a a few towels wrapped around the incubator because it gets cooler at night. but i don't think that helped much.The temp was cold for the surrounding air..mid 70's and the temp on top of the eggs was in the 80s...I was reading that low heat is more harmful to more developed embryos..so idk if any will hatch for me.I don't see any weeping eggs and checking for smell....hubby was being an insensitive prick and he knows i am very upset. Going to call up the breeder and tell him what happen and see if i can get on a waiting list or something......sigh
Wow that is a Miracle!!! Thank you a feel better ...still want to fish slap my dear hubby thoughYes, she ran outside when I opened up the barn and was all crazy acting running around like a silly chicken. Maybe she was just using some pent up energy. She would run around chasing some of the smaller ones and run in circles flapping her wings. I thought she had gone bonkers on me! She was at the door the second day waiting for me to open it up, then the next morning she was back on the nest. I think she was setting on about a dozen eggs and 3 hatched out.
Oh and one more story that might make you feel better. I made a home made incubator out of an unused aquarium that I had. This was my first attempt at incubating. I had a fan on it and two light bulbs for heat, had it down to a perfect 99.5 heat I was so proud of myself. I ordered a dozen Serama eggs and 6 Black Copper Maran eggs. Anyway, my electricity went of for two and a half days!!! I was about 17 days in the best I can recall. I tried putting a candle inside it for heat (I was so desperate!) I stared at it for hours watching the temp go down and fearfful the candle would catch something on fire. After about a day and a half I gave up on it. I was exhausted. Well I stopped turning them and everything. I had left the house and came home and heard a loud peeping. I thought a bird had fallen out of the nest somewhere close to the house. Well, low and behold I had one Black Copper Maran baby hatch out!!! I named her Miracle!!!Here she is still wet!
lol i had the temp set up for a week playing with all the thermometers and the one that came with the incubator was off by 20 degrees :O so i was glad i had 2 others ones....thank you for the encouragementI was going to try ebay. Do you have any suggestions?
Don't give up. I don't think mother nature is perfect when it comes to hatching either. My 1st hatch, I had issues with the incubator temperatures. I think it was me turning the temperature control nobs too far in either direction. I had 5 out of 30 shipped eggs hatch. I have since learned to set it up the incubator temp a few days early and LEAVE IT ALONE!
I didn't know any better at the time or wasn't thinking logically (probably the later), but when I would candle the eggs... the temp dropped. So guess what I did? I would turn up the temp control. I think that first hatch, the temp went up and down between 80-110.lol i had the temp set up for a week playing with all the thermometers and the one that came with the incubator was off by 20 degrees :O so i was glad i had 2 others ones....thank you for the encouragement
I didn't know any better at the time or wasn't thinking logically (probably the later), but when I would candle the eggs... the temp dropped. So guess what I did? I would turn up the temp control. I think that first hatch, the temp went up and down between 80-110.
oh my...glad you got a few chicks. I caught myself doing that..luckly i was like a hawk for a while trying to adgust the temp and learned to back off once the temp is well adjusted. cause i was driving myself nuts!!!
I'm doing it 24 hours in the incubator...but this is my first timeSo just curious... How exactly do you count your "days"? I know this is probably a dumb questionDo you count "day 1" as the first day you put them in the incubator? Or do you count "day 1" as soon as 24 hours hits from the time you put them in the day before? Or is "day 1" the day after you put the eggs in the incubator?
I wondering if I'm the only person that debates things like this... lol Maybe I'll just count hours to me more accurate?
I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions. I purchased from Catdance in WA. There is another breeder of silkies named 2hot2chicken that I hear is good. Maybe someone else has an ebay seller to share with you. Good luck your daughter, and you, will love them.
DO NOT GIVE UP!! if it was only 2 hours that the temp was off then you have a good chance still. Even though the temp was in the 80's on top of the eggs it does not mean the inside of the egg was. The air in your bator cools much faster than the inside of the eggs. Think how long it took the eggs to get from room temp. when you first set them, to 99.5. Also remember that momma hen gets off her eggs to do her business. Sometimes they are off for a longer period of time. If I were you I would continue like nothing happened and then in a few days candle the eggs to see what you have. You just might be surprised.Hello everyone...i have good news and bad news on my part. I candled the eggs the other day and look about half are good and a few iffy ones. I started turning mine on Sunday, was doing really well until after my last turning at 2 am and woke up at around 4 am, my incubator was slightly unplugged and not on..My cats must have played by the cord and knocked the cord around...Still going to do my turning and regulate the heat and humidity.I had a a few towels wrapped around the incubator because it gets cooler at night. but i don't think that helped much.The temp was cold for the surrounding air..mid 70's and the temp on top of the eggs was in the 80s...I was reading that low heat is more harmful to more developed embryos..so idk if any will hatch for me.I don't see any weeping eggs and checking for smell....hubby was being an insensitive prick and he knows i am very upset. Going to call up the breeder and tell him what happen and see if i can get on a waiting list or something......sigh
