Silkie Thread! Talk about your Silkies and post pics of your Silkies

[emvickrey]

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I usually panic when my temps hit 101.8. I like mine around 100.2 and 100.4 and humidity at 50% or very close to it. The right humidity will prevent the leg problems. My incubators need babysitters. I'm a prisoner to them yet still there are fluctuations. This time of year they always go nuts and I end up with curled toes and spraddle legs. It can be fixed but it's still a pain for it to happen.

 

[dorthal]

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I usually panic when my temps hit 101.8. I like mine around 100.2 and 100.4 and humidity at 50% or very close to it. The right humidity will prevent the leg problems. My incubators need babysitters. I'm a prisoner to them yet still there are fluctuations. This time of year they always go nuts and I end up with curled toes and spraddle legs. It can be fixed but it's still a pain for it to happen.

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Thanks so much, I will adjust temperature and keep it to 101 or just below. Humidity at 50% is doable. The one chick that hatched from low temp had perfect feet and legs. I have high hopes for the pipped one. It talks a lot, I think it hears its sibling.

 

[emvickrey]

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I usually panic when my temps hit 101.8. I like mine around 100.2 and 100.4 and humidity at 50% or very close to it. The right humidity will prevent the leg problems. My incubators need babysitters. I'm a prisoner to them yet still there are fluctuations. This time of year they always go nuts and I end up with curled toes and spraddle legs. It can be fixed but it's still a pain for it to happen.

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Thanks so much, I will adjust temperature and keep it to 101 or just below. Humidity at 50% is doable. The one chick that hatched from low temp had perfect feet and legs. I have high hopes for the pipped one. It talks a lot, I think it hears its sibling.

Not all mine that I had problems with humidity turned out with messed up legs but it just makes it more possible for it to happen. I know most people incubate differently. But this works for me. I keep the humidity at or close to 50% during beginning to end till they hatch if at all possible. I know when they hatch it raises the humidity. I just let it be. With quail I incubate and hatch at 60%. I read on here that the higher the temp the faster the chick will grow and a large chance will hatch early. But the faster growth will produce a smaller chick. The longer the incubation the larger the chick and also the higher humidity the larger the chick. The larger chick has a harder time zipping out. Thats why I run my temps and humidity the way I do. If shrink wrap happens I just help it out. NO big deal. I'm usually glued to the hatcher when they go in it anyway. I have a hovobator that does great with holding temp and humidity. I can raise the lid enough to grab out an egg and close it and it never changes. If I have to have it open longer than that it goes right back to where it's suppose to be very fast. It's the incubators I leave alone until I have to add water, candle eggs or add more eggs. Other wise, I leave them alone.

 

[NewToFarming]

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They do look very similiar, don't they? Thanks for showing me that! I also wanted to let you know that I love that second pic you had posted!!! Very cute! How old are your chicks now?

 

[seminolewind]

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They do look very similiar, don't they? Thanks for showing me that! I also wanted to let you know that I love that second pic you had posted!!! Very cute! How old are your chicks now?

One month old. I gotta take a pic.

Oh yeah, so far my silkies have produced only girls. If these are girls, that will make 3 hatches!

Here are the pics: There are only 2 chicks.

DAD

 

[awesomefowl]

MY two silkies are pipping!!!!!!!!!!!! go babies!!!!!

 

[seminolewind]

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Yippee!!!! I could hatch silkies til the cows come home!!!!!

 

[NewToFarming]

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They do look very similiar, don't they? Thanks for showing me that! I also wanted to let you know that I love that second pic you had posted!!! Very cute! How old are your chicks now?

One month old. I gotta take a pic.

Oh yeah, so far my silkies have produced only girls. If these are girls, that will make 3 hatches!

Here are the pics: There are only 2 chicks.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/kseminolewind/silchksroosblrwblgiants/007-2.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/kseminolewind/silchksroosblrwblgiants/005-3.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/kseminolewind/silchksroosblrwblgiants/003-2.jpg

DAD

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/kseminolewind/silchksroosblrwblgiants/002-1.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/kseminolewind/silchksroosblrwblgiants/006-2.jpg

Your Dad has very similiar colors to one of my roo's. I will have to take an updated picture of him tomorrow and post it.

 

[NewToFarming]

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Yippee!!!! I could hatch silkies til the cows come home!!!!!

WooHoo!

So could I!!! Are the babies here yet?

 

[NewToFarming]

Meet Bob...my head roo!