Veins!!!silkies and tester

[Justino]

i candelled my 3 of my 8 eggs today and they all had veins!!! yay!!!

 

[Justino]

test egg and 2 silkies had veins!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Don't handle your silkie eggs too much by candling...day 7, 14 and 18...handling too much kills off hatches...

 

[Pinenot]

I have had trouble hatching Silkies so I didn't candle except twice, day 7 and day 16. Keep that bator closed!

 

[lurky]

I have 2 silkies playing musical chairs with one lone silkie egg. Its halfway through at day 11 today. I had a broody who lost the egg, it rolled away from her. A second silkie jumped on it. So the second one was committed for a few days....just long enough for the original broody to snap out of being broody

And now it seems that I am the only one committed to this egg. I find it alone in the middle of the floor and stuff it under whoever is laying to keep it warm. I know it was developing fine....but now i dont know what is going to happen. If it actually hatches, i am going to have to come up with a name that will reflect how bad the odds were against this poor thing making it (open to suggestions) In reading this post, i hope it does not mess it up because i have to move it so much to keep it under a silkie. Plus the times it gets neglected

I dont think it has much chance....but i am going to keep trying til the end

 

[LoneCowboy]

Name it Oliver, like Oliver Twist

 

[lurky]

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I dont know oliver twist

why him?

 

[Justino]

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well i have to hand turn them 3 times a day

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Hand turning them is fine ...it's the extra candling along with that, that will ruin hatches....when I turn my eggs on day 7, 14, and 18...I make sure its the same time that I've to turn the eggs....

 

[Justino]

whats the big deal? the temp goes right back within like 5 minuttes...