Silkie thread!

[B J Hopkins]

Oh I'm happy happy happy!

My Silky eggs are hatching right on time.
I had 11 Silky eggs, 2 EE eggs, 3 EE/Legg'ern eggs & 3 mixed brown eggs in the incubator.
So far I have 2 Black Silky, 4 Silver Grey Silky, 1 Silver Grey Showgirl, 2 Legg'ern mix. 2 more eggs are pipped.
I've 4 Silky eggs left to hatch & 4 standard eggs left to hatch.








I was shinning the Candler light into the 'bator so I could take pictures. It had the chicks scrambling around A LOT, so it was hard to get good pictures that weren't just a blur of chicks. These 4 were the best of the lot. Last picture you can see my itty bitty Showgirl chick!! So far all the Silky are domed.

 

[TinTennessee]

Thanks everyone, I knew they were told. The lady I got them from bought hatching eggs from someone, she has partridge, white & buff from the same hatch.

 

[Suzierd]

Oh I'm happy happy happy!e My Silky eggs are hatching right on time. I had 11 Silky eggs, 2 EE eggs, 3 EE/Legg'ern eggs & 3 mixed brown eggs in the incubator. So far I have 2 Black Silky, 4 Silver Grey Silky, 1 Silver Grey Showgirl, 2 Legg'ern mix. 2 more eggs are pipped. I've 4 Silky eggs left to hatch & 4 standard eggs left to hatch. I was shinning the Candler light into the 'bator so I could take pictures. It had the chicks scrambling around A LOT, so it was hard to get good pictures that weren't just a blur of chicks. These 4 were the best of the lot. Last picture you can see my itty bitty Showgirl chick!! So far all the Silky are domed.

Aww, that little show girl looks so cute!

 

[newbie32]

HELP! I think something is Wrong! my 3 and half week old silkie is looking wet and the chest is bare! Whats wrong?

 

[TiaRC]

Love it! Are they under some bushes brooding?

Yes lol pompas grass in fact. They went missing and found them here together sharing 5 eggs. Lol they have been at it for a week now.

 

[sheeshshe]

Have you palpated her abdomen? She may have layed an internal egg and it's lodged somewhere preventing her from walking right

Icelynn has one right now and she has quite the waddle, but luckily it isn't near her hips and isn't harming her as of yet.

I actually have, but I wasn't sure if it felt normal or not. Can you explain to me a little better at what I should be looking for and where exactly in the abdomen I should feel feeling the egg? would it be a hard egg? soft??

and would she still be alive after a month like this? I thought if she laid internally, that she'd be dead by now.

 

[Clintgt]

our newly hatched silkies.

We had four black, one buff, and one white/grey.

 

[NOLA Chicks]

Another one! I think I might have to band these two to tell them apart LOL

Yay!!! I'm so happy for you.

our newly hatched silkies.



We had four black, one buff, and one white/grey.

So cute!

Congratulations!!

 

[Clintgt]

Thank you. We also had two mixed eggs from our own coop. This is our first hatch and it went better than expected. It was amazing watching the first one fight it's way out.

 

[NOLA Chicks]

I need some advice please. Stormey's clutch of eggs is at Day 23 today by my calculations. One egg hatched Friday, right on time, but nothing else has pipped or hatched as of this morning. I candled the eggs around Day 15'ish. I didn't take pictures but here are some similar images I pulled from the web.

1 egg looked like this. I'm assuming this is the one that hatched Friday.



The other 11 eggs looked more like this but each had a visible air pocket:



Are the rest of eggs bad? Should I go ahead and pull them from Stormey or wait another day? How will she react if I take her eggs away?

Then, there's the question of the single chick, Uno. I pulled her and placed her in a brooder until there was another hatch - this being the first time for me and for Stormey. Can I place her back under Stormey now? Should I wait till tonight and exchange Uno for the remaining eggs (assuming nothing else hatches)?

Sorry for all the questions but I don't want to make any mistakes.