We were too eggcited so we candled on I think Day 5, we tried justifying it, saying, hey the mamma hen would have to get up once in a while...haha! But when it got down to the last 4 days, oh wow, we were checking the incubator every couple of hours, then the hatching started and we were increasing humidity. It was like waiting for a loved one in labor! We couldn't quite get the humidity up in the Farm Innovator 4400 with just adding in 5 cc of water through a straw into the water port areas so we opened the incubator and put in 1/2 of a sponge in a cup with distilled water. It did help to keep up the humidity. We tried to wait to really get the humidity up until we saw a crack in a shell. We did have it around 50% starting on day 18 and it dropped once, before the sponge was added, down to 45% temporarily. We hatched 3, it would have been 4 if we had intervened, out of 7 viable hatchlings so we are very happy. I hope your hatch goes well!twin arrows, very exciting!!!
jorey, that is awesome to have 11 moving and shaking! I am hoping for ANY, this being my first hatch also, am just dying for day 7 to come so I can see who's in there and hoping I have some viable!!!good things come to those who wait right? lol just must remind myself this.... at this point i'll be happy with any!!
Questions: Is it possible to hatch these early eggs? If so- how do I 'keep' them until I have enough to start hatching? Thanks for any help. I am looking forward to raising silkies this spring. Aren't they cute? 
