I really don't think its my Silkies. I haven't trimmed at all. I have on my Houdan, because she was getting ice blocks on her beard and crest, and I didn't know how she was doing it. So she got a feather cut in November.
The Silkies actually stay to themselves for the most part, they even roost on the other side of the coop with the Japanese Bantam, and a Cochin Bantam, and sometime the Houdan is over there too. They were raised with everyone out there that is the same age as them, and they are 3 months older then the new ones, but they were like raised with them, because I have a grow out pen that I set up in the middle of their main run, so everyone is with each other for almost 2 months before I let them out, and I've never had any issues.
Also I had originally 4 of them, but the other 2 where double the size of these 2, they like tanked this too, and one started crowing at 8 weeks, the other to follow at 11 weeks. So I really, truly don't think its one of them. But I have no idea who it is, and everyone is telling me these eggs are fertile.
So I go a cheap-o Little Giant Incubator Still Air the other day, its the only one I could find locally since is the middle of the winter. Everyone thought I was nuts wanting to incubate this time of year at the feed stores. Anyways, its been up and running for over 24 hrs at 100.2 with 16% humidity, as stated by the feed store guy, and a few people on my local thread said with the still airs they need to run a tad higher then the 99.9, and not to worry about the humidity until 3 days before hatch. So I have 6 eggs, that I collected the last 2 days to through in there, and the person who I actually bought the Silkies, is going to come over today with a few eggs for me to hatch out, since his are 100% for dead certain fertile, and he is going to look at all 18 of them out there, and figure out who HE is. Since no one can tell me off photo's. I've been driving me nuts. I've sat and stared out them for several, several hours this week too, and can't find the lucky mister out there that has 17 ladies all to himself.
The Silkies actually stay to themselves for the most part, they even roost on the other side of the coop with the Japanese Bantam, and a Cochin Bantam, and sometime the Houdan is over there too. They were raised with everyone out there that is the same age as them, and they are 3 months older then the new ones, but they were like raised with them, because I have a grow out pen that I set up in the middle of their main run, so everyone is with each other for almost 2 months before I let them out, and I've never had any issues.
Also I had originally 4 of them, but the other 2 where double the size of these 2, they like tanked this too, and one started crowing at 8 weeks, the other to follow at 11 weeks. So I really, truly don't think its one of them. But I have no idea who it is, and everyone is telling me these eggs are fertile.
So I go a cheap-o Little Giant Incubator Still Air the other day, its the only one I could find locally since is the middle of the winter. Everyone thought I was nuts wanting to incubate this time of year at the feed stores. Anyways, its been up and running for over 24 hrs at 100.2 with 16% humidity, as stated by the feed store guy, and a few people on my local thread said with the still airs they need to run a tad higher then the 99.9, and not to worry about the humidity until 3 days before hatch. So I have 6 eggs, that I collected the last 2 days to through in there, and the person who I actually bought the Silkies, is going to come over today with a few eggs for me to hatch out, since his are 100% for dead certain fertile, and he is going to look at all 18 of them out there, and figure out who HE is. Since no one can tell me off photo's. I've been driving me nuts. I've sat and stared out them for several, several hours this week too, and can't find the lucky mister out there that has 17 ladies all to himself.
