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My silkies get exactly teh same food as the ameraucanas who are hatching like popcorn. I think mine is a humidity issue since I am doing staggered hatches and am raising the humidity level during the hatch phase for them. I have yet to hatch a sillkie but 4 are geting close. Friday is hatch day for them.
FWIW, I always have staggered hatching. I rarely move eggs to the bottom unless I see a pip--they rock up until they hatch. Have a bunch hatching yesterday and today, though. Including a partridge chick from a black silkie papa and a white crested black silkie mama; partridge shouldn't come from them, either
Another from them is a proper black. It will be interesting to see if the chicks inherit the white crests.