If the crack is minor you can use some liquid bandage and paint over it, it should seal it. How does the air cell look in this egg? If the air cell is detached or loose I would not use this egg if you have others to choose from. If it’s looking good then go ahead and incubate it and you’ll see within four days or so if it’s going to develop or not.
I'll never grasp all this!It kind of depends. I'm not sure what the red babies out of red lines look like or if it varies a lot. I've had red partridge hatch and they were partridge looking with a nice red tint as chicks. Then I've got the mille split boy and my red frizzle girl. The frizzle was from a red father and a red penciled mother. Both she and the mille split boy were very light yellow/white as chicks but with some black markings (like a few black dots/stripes running down the back). I think the wheaten based reds like that can tend to look really light downed as chicks sometimes.
These are the one I think were eb (partridge based). The male is kind of red partridge + some other genes that spread the red into other places like the chest etc. The female equivalent looks more classic partridge but more red.
As chicks
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And then the little mille split which seems to be wheaten based looked like this as a chick. The little red frizzle girl (who I don't have a picture of handy) looked really similar but with fewer black stripes. The smooth satin girl in the picture also has dominant white involved so pretty much looked like a yellow chick.
Mille split boy as a chick
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Mille split a little older (I think a lot of the time the red comes through more vibrantly in boys which I suspect this one is)
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Red frizzle satin and red smooth satin girls
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Oh congratulations! What a pretty little one too!
I'm still not sure. I would have said cockerel if the little one wasn't from your flock just for the comb. The crest and tail has me leaning slightly more towards a boy but I'd still wait on this little one just in case. I see the green sheen in my black pullets sometimes too so I wouldn't pay much mind to it.
Anyone knows what colour is Luna?
Photo is not real clear, but she could be mottled?
I dry incubate. You need to have a good incubator. It depends very much on the ambient humidity in your area. Living in Hawaii, it is high here. When I incubate the humidity runs anywhere from 25-45% in the incubator. You do not want it to go much lower than 25%. The humidity is usually at least 60% in the house.
Ok, I'm in eastern Oklahoma, humidity in the house is running between 40% and 50% higher if we have storms. Using a brinsea mini.I dry incubate. You need to have a good incubator. It depends very much on the ambient humidity in your area. Living in Hawaii, it is high here. When I incubate the humidity runs anywhere from 25-45% in the incubator. You do not want it to go much lower than 25%. The humidity is usually at least 60% in the house.
Best to test run your incubator for a few days and monitor the humidity to see what you get. Make sure to have independent hygrometers as well.
I add water when I see the first internal pip or at DAY 19, whichever comes first. I usually stop turning at DAY 17.
This method works for me in my environment.
It still may work for you. You never know until you try. Try running your incubator without water for a couple days and see what kind of readings you get.
Do you change anything else about your incubation parameters when hatching silkies? I'm incubating my second clutch of them, and found that the first clutch started externally pipping at day 18, so this time I removed the turner at day 16 just to be on the safe side (as opposed to day 17 for the last clutch). Just wondering if there is anything else I should be doing in the future. TIA
