Silkies

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Having trouble getting Silkie chicks to live . Have hatched 7 chicks,only 2 have made it. Most that have died have done so in two to three days after hatching. Also very low % of eggs are hatching, like 15 to 20%.
RIR's are doing great, 90% hatch rate and 100% survival.
Any ideas on what could be wrong?

 

[lincolnsilkies]

Could be a nutrition thing with the hen are these your eggs or shipped eggs maybe the hen is missing something in her diet are they being hatched in a incubator or with mama do u have the brooder temp right if they are in a brooder? need more details please

 

[Brody's Broodello]

If your eggs what are you feeding, if your feeding layer feed the calcuim could be to high, causing the chicks to work to hard to get out.

 

[jenlynn4]

hummm maybe a nutritional deficency in the parent birds or bacteria? But if you are setting other eggs at the same time I wouldnt say its bacteria. Are they hatching with really fat squishy bellies? That coud be caused by to high of humidity durring incubation and silkies are pretty suseptable to that. ( I cant remember what it is called) Sorry not more help.