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bird-brain said:
Hi everyone. I've LOVED all your pics!

I have a question and there is a similar thread but it was short. I had 12 silkie eggs that shipped to me from PA (I'm in GA). I also had 14 LF salmon faverolles shipped to me from Oregon (PiperOmar eggs). They arrived a day apart, the Favs arrived first. I let both batches sit for 24 hours and had some really bad air sacs and scrambles on the Favs which I knew was a possibility because EVERYTHING I get shipped USPS is beat to h311 when it arrives and these little guys traveled a long way. I'm just glad some were okay.

The silkies traveled a shorter distance and were in what appeared to be much better shape. I always recheck shipped eggs after a few days in the bator because i can see air sacs more clearly. I also put a couple of my own Ameracauna eggs in with them so I get a better idea of was it the eggs or bator problems that affect the hatch. On recheck of the favs, what I expected to be okay is veining up and looking good.

Unfortunately my silkies are not. The Ameracauna eggs that are in with the silkies are starting to vein lightly, (6 days in) but I see no signs from my cute little silkie eggs. I have never hatched bantam eggs before. Is there a different trick with these little guys? I handled them pretty much the same as my LF eggs. I am obsessive with my bators (despite wanting to throw them across the room most days) and I know that the one silkies are in has run a little on the cooler 99- 99.3 side. Would that be a problem for the silkie eggs? Air sacs look good, yolks look good. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing that has probably wrecked all my eggs.

When I hatch my own eggs I get 100% 9 out of ten hatches and never less than 90% so I'm pretty good at it. To loose a whole clutch just has me baffled. Thanks in advance for any input.
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I don't treat my silkie eggs any different to other breeds. I did have a clutch hatch at day 18 though. I wouldn't throw them out yet. Have you asked the seller what kind of fertility rate they have been having?
 
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tommysgirl said:
Hi I am picking up a silkie tonight who is rumored to be broody.  If she is really broody when I get there I will just get her and her eggs but the girl I am getting her from is young and even less experienced than I am so I am not sure if she has just collected a clutch or if she is sitting on them or what.  If she isn't setting on them she will need a friend so I will be bringing home two silky girls tonight.

Anything I should know? 
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Take a good torch with you and candle the eggs. Relocation can be very stressful on adult birds and it's a real gamble moving her while she's on eggs. Do you have any idea how long she has been sitting? If they have pipped internally and you so much as roll them over they will drown. I would be inclined to find out how developed they are and if they not far from hatching arrange to pick them up once they have. On the other hand , if she has just begun sitting they may not even be viable.
 
subhanalah said:
yay! Will you have other chick's with it? They get lonely
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yes! she's coming with a JG, a EE, and a GL polish. i can assure she won't be lonely!
 

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