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These are just silkie eggs from my own flock, I only ran them through to see how well I would do on non-shipped eggs. I may keep any b/b but really don't want or need anymore chicks at this time. I have around 30 silkies atm. I do hear chirpping coming from the bator but I don't think I have any pips yet. I have one I am questioning as far as being pipped but it is hard to see and they always seem to pip on the side you can barely see. I will update this post as they progress. I am also trying to get another video for my facebook since my sisters kids begged me to. I have 14 eggs I am trying to give away but don't want to ship, I would let you or anyone close by just take them. I have been feeding them back to the chickens and just feel so bad, if I can get pass cracking the open they do look like store bought eggs, but it is the cracking them open that makes me feel bad. I have 100% fertility on my own eggs so I know there is a chick in the ones I crack open. I don't think I really have a market in my area for silkies or showgirls. Everyone wants RIR, OE's or one of the other breeds. So I am not sure I need to be hathcing out too many chicks.
I say this now and that may change after hatch, but I love the 1588 I like my 1602N but the 1588 is so much nicer. I do have a used LG but have not used it. I like the egg turner in it more so than the Hovabator turner, but I have read so much about LG and stabality I was scared to use it knowing I had eggs from Jen coming.

My Showgirls are doing great! I allowed outside time yesterday and it went very well, although I did bring in for the night for a couple of reasons. First they are still on the Lefaber's diet, and secondly I would miss them something awful, and it is just too cold even with the heat lamps in the coop. This week should be nice and I will try again to let them stay in the coop over night. Bells is fiesty and really should have more acess outside but Edward was a little slow to go, and still recovering. When they are apart they will call for each other and Bells aways goes running to his side. It is just so darn sweet to watch them. It will just be awful when I have to seperate the 2 of them and I will start helping them make silkie friends soon. Wild man is a great candidate for Bells he has the spunk to keep up with her, and the little silkie Jen sent I think will be great for Edward, she is very sweet, a bit prissy, and calm for the most part. I can't wait to watch them grow up, or hatch some of their babies.

I am waiting on everyone else to post baby SG pics. They are the most precious things ever IMO! Rilly what do you have going on in that bator? I am so jealous I wish my eggs were from my SG's. Oh well next year!
 
Out of my 3 lav sg eggs I have one out!!!!! I can't tell if it is a SG yet as it is all wet still. One is pipping and one nothing yet...I hope the last wasn't a late quitter.
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Yay please post pics soon as you can! I have one pip on my silkie eggs that are due in 2 hrs. These are my first eggs laid so I don't have my hopes too high for them. I do hear them in there. I will go to bed tonight hoping to wake to chicks in the morning. Crossing my fingers for the one out to be a SG for you Rilly and for the one egg you are questioning.
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I will be your cheerleader! Go little chickens go! Go little chickens go!
 
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Well 2 are out and I am sadly dissapointed. Neither are SG OR LAV! One might be a lav and has chipmunk stripes but the other is blue! My "lav hen" must just be a light blue split. She was sold to me as lavender and looks lavender but has a darker head so I figured I would see what she threw with my DEFINITE lavender SG roo. Well she MUST be a really light blue split as I suspected so she will be sold. I just don't have the room or time to work with anything but lavs and black splits. I don't really want to deal with the lav split to blue or splash. OH WELL. At least I know the roo is fertile. I have some eggs that were laid from his pen recently from a black split lav hen so HOPEfully that hatch will go better.

SSS- any updates with your hatch???? Go babies go!!!!
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@ Rilly that is a bummer! I don't think I would run a blue/self blue split if self blue is your goal. Sorry to hear that about your hen. I know you had such high hopes with these eggs. I do think some people are confused as to actual self blue and not just looking self blue from splash on splash breeding. I would still like to see the pics I am sure they are adorable. Hey least you have chicks I think mine are all dead. See my thread for more info. I am not happy with myself atm.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5160832#p5160832
 
Bummer! I am sorry to hear about your hatch. If it were me I would try to stick a warm damp papertowel wad in there to raise the humidity and leave them in there for another day. It is hard when incubating. You will have some awesome, and some not so great batches.
 
I've been working a bit with showgirls for about 3 or 4 years now. Mine came from Bren's Cozy Silkies, so were good quality to begin with--she'd done most of the work! I now have left only one silver white showgirl hen, who is really nice; One very nice partridge hen; one black rooster and two black hens; two beautiful splash hens (their father is a Mihalik splash silkie)--I'll be showing one of them at Shawnee in December; three very nice blue pullets--thought two of them were lavs when first hatched; and finally one tiny little lav. Had a gorgeous young blue cockerel--best crest I'd ever seen on a male--but his half brothers, who had been in with him from hatch, killed him one night when they were nearly fullgrown. He was the only dark one--the others are porcelains and not showgirls.

My lav showgirl is only 11 days old, but has a high vaulted skull, beard, bowtie, perfect toes, and good foot feathering so far. I'm excited about this one! I like both bearded and nonbearded IF the crest is good enough to give them balance. You can see the beautiful eyes and faces better on the nbs.

Because my original showgirls were from Bren's wonderful stock, I've had little problem with toes or foot feathering. Many of the babes have high vaulted skulls. Most of my blues before this were not pretty and were nonbearded, but this year's bunch seem to be mostly bearded and have vaulted skulls. It really helps to have good stock to begin with, and I've added brother and sister black split to lav showgirls from Bren, along with the Mihalik splash silkie roo to the mix. The tiny baby lav is the result of the black/lav split showgirl from Bren and a 1/2 lav silkie hen.

Unfortunately, two different types of predator attacks very recently resulted in the loss of my nice blue showgirl hen and my beautiful buff showgirl hen--the only buff of any kind I had left. A snake tried to swallow my lovely adult silver partridge hen a few months back, and of course suffocated her though he couldn't eat her. Don't the predators usually get your BEST birds! I'd shown all three of these birds.
 
So you have good middle toe feathering on your girls? I don't have a problem with it on boys, but it seems like the girls carrying the NN gene are less likely to have good fot feathering... although it does happen.
 

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