Silkie thread!

[ScaredOfShadows]

Don't mean to jump into the middle of the thread but--four out of four silkie eggs pipped this afternoon! With the nine just hatched in the brooder, and another dozen or so eggs in the incubator, I'm going to cut my hen some slack over the fact that she's taken it into her head to brood bare straw the last day or two. Guess she figures she ought to have quite a pile of eggs by now!

This is such a small batch it hardly even counts, but I'll be sooo excited if all four eggs make it out!

Cross your fingers for me!

 

[peepblessed]

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[peepblessed]

Beautiful! Are they the same age?

 

[Country Chickens]

Ahhh, thanks, guys! I'm crossing mine, too! Our last hatch (and I really have no right to complain, given that some of the eggs were three weeks old and were 'stored' in the 40 something degree barn while I tried to get Mom to raise them) but, as I was saying, in the last batch there was one chick that pipped, then died without doing anything else. Looked fully formed and healthy, but didn't get into position well so it pipped way too low for the air sack. Always makes me sad...so then I run look at the nine happy chicks and cross my fingers again for the four in the hatching bator!

And, why yes, I do believe I AM hopeless! lol

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Beautiful! Are they the same age?

the blueish one was hatched Sunday afternoon the partridge hatched early this morning, so a day and some change apart? The partridge is TINY

 

[peepblessed]

the blueish one was hatched Sunday afternoon the partridge hatched early this morning, so a day and some change apart? The partridge is TINY

Love the chipmonks! Tiny and adorable!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

They are both silkies, I have never hatched a silkie as tiny as that partridge.

 

[peepblessed]

Ahhh, thanks, guys! I'm crossing mine, too! Our last hatch (and I really have no right to complain, given that some of the eggs were three weeks old and were 'stored' in the 40 something degree barn while I tried to get Mom to raise them) but, as I was saying, in the last batch there was one chick that pipped, then died without doing anything else. Looked fully formed and healthy, but didn't get into position well so it pipped way too low for the air sack. Always makes me sad...so then I run look at the nine happy chicks and cross my fingers again for the four in the hatching bator!

And, why yes, I do believe I AM hopeless! lol

I set a dozen shipped eggs 10 days ago and have 3 that might make it. So of course I had to buy more to cheer myself up!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I have 24 shipped eggs in the bator that are cooking, 9 of those go on lockdown Thursday. the rest go next week. this batch all 24 came from same breeder a week apart, only had to toss 1 or 2 eggs thankfully.

Thursday I am getting atleast 20 more eggs to stick in the bator. Lets hope these do as well!

 

[sager:)silkies]

I have 24 shipped eggs in the bator that are cooking, 9 of those go on lockdown Thursday. the rest go next week. this batch all 24 came from same breeder a week apart, only had to toss 1 or 2 eggs thankfully.

Thursday I am getting atleast 20 more eggs to stick in the bator. Lets hope these do as well!

wish u the best i just got done putting 17 eggs in the bator