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Thank you!! I didn’t know that about the egg shells. I’m not sure I can keep track of what chick comes from what egg but I’ll try! We are hatching silkies. We can’t keep roosters so I’d like to know as soon as possible which ones to try to not get attached to. I have homes for them already so that helps. Thank you again for the help!I have used this one:
https://iqbirdtesting.com/
I was doing a different breed of chicken, not silkies, but I don't think that would make any difference.
They were accurate for the two chickens I did.
I plucked a few feathers from the chest of each chicken (following directions from their website), mailed them in, and the company did the rest. No problems.
If you hatch the chicks yourself, you can send in the eggshells instead of taking a sample from each chick. But of course that is only useful if you know which shell goes with which chick.
My chickens were Black Sumatras: small black pea combs, tiny wattles, and I was getting tired of waiting and guessing. I did a google search and picked the cheapest of the companies I found at the time. That was several years ago, so there may be changes in what companies are available and how much they charge.
Some people put the eggs in mesh bags or baskets to hatch. If you have one egg per bag, then after it hatches you have one chick and one shell in that bag, which makes it easy to tell.Thank you!! I didn’t know that about the egg shells. I’m not sure I can keep track of what chick comes from what egg but I’ll try! We are hatching silkies. We can’t keep roosters so I’d like to know as soon as possible which ones to try to not get attached to. I have homes for them already so that helps. Thank you again for the help!