Silkie Hatch-A-Long 2015

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Just put 7 Silkie eggs in the 'bator yesterday: Whites, Buffs, and Partridge. I can hardly wait to see what hatches out!

 

[rainbowchick]

My eggs are here! The warmer was still slightly warm, so I don't think they got frozen.
Not super sure on the mix, I requested mostly partridge, but most of them are marked BBS... Guess it's a surprise!!

 

[Tammylr]

Porcelain is a diluted partridge or buff. BBS stands for Blue, Black, Splash, which genetically can be easily crossed with eachother to produce varying amounts of blues, blacks, and splashes. Search for BBS Punnet Square and you'll see what I mean...

My porcelains are lav with mottling gene.

 

[rainbowchick]

My porcelains are lav with mottling gene.

Since porcelain is still in the project stages, there doesn't seem to be just "one" way to create the effect. IF the color were ever to try to be approved, people would need to hunker down and decide *which* standard they want. In which case, unfortunately, many breeders may be left in the dust with their "non-standard" phenotype....
But for now, the bottom line is: porcelain is a dilution of colors in many different patterns.

 

[Tammylr]

These are my porcelains:

 

[rainbowchick]

Reading my post again, I hope you didn't take offense. I did not mean yours were "wrong" at all!
I'd love to see pics of the adults!

 

[Tammylr]

Reading my post again, I hope you didn't take offense. I did not mean yours were "wrong" at all!
I'd love to see pics of the adults!

I'll post more as they grow. They are pretty little fluffy butts.

 

[KV Silkies]

well hatch day is wednesday, have been off the "radar" for a bit with migraine fun. good times. and my two younger roos disrupted my broody who went on strike.... which I don't really blame her, she has been broody for almost 3 months, but she quit like 5 days prior to hatch!

so I found her 4 eggs in the nest cold. I took them to the bator quick, candled the next day, movement in 3 one for sure a goner, looked like it had already quit earlier. so locked down yesterday, hatch day wednesday, hoping to see 11 fuzzy butts.....

9 shipped, 2 from my flock just for fun. love everyone's pics and enjoyed the beak sexing, which I will totally be using.... oh yes and sold my 2 young roos in the meantime to a good home, so now anytime someone can go broody again.

 

[tamwade]

Tomorrow is day 18 for me. This is my first hatch with an incubator. I have 29 eggs in there and I candled them today and they all look good! I haven't been able to check my humidity at all but I have kept water in the bottom and the air sacks all looked good I think!? I have about a dozen silkie/frizzle, a few cochin and some of my own barnyard mixes I put in there. I do have a white silkie rooster so I want to see if he's been busy! Then again I have six roosters so it could be interesting what I turn up with. Sunday should be hatch day so we are going on lock down tomorrow evening and then I have to go out of town until Saturdady night but my daughter is keeping an eye out for them to pip. So let me see if I have this right, as soon as I see one pipping then I should put a couple wet sponges in with them to bring up humidity correct?

 

[rainbowchick]

Tomorrow is day 18 for me. This is my first hatch with an incubator. I have 29 eggs in there and I candled them today and they all look good! I haven't been able to check my humidity at all but I have kept water in the bottom and the air sacks all looked good I think!? I have about a dozen silkie/frizzle, a few cochin and some of my own barnyard mixes I put in there. I do have a white silkie rooster so I want to see if he's been busy! Then again I have six roosters so it could be interesting what I turn up with. Sunday should be hatch day so we are going on lock down tomorrow evening and then I have to go out of town until Saturdady night but my daughter is keeping an eye out for them to pip. So let me see if I have this right, as soon as I see one pipping then I should put a couple wet sponges in with them to bring up humidity correct?

You should bump up humidity on day 18 or 19, regardless of pips.