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lol I feel you!!!! I truly have hatched my last batch for awhile! Maybe until this lavender silkie baby grows up enough to get babies from 😅

Oh my, somehow I wrote that I wanted to set eggs in the brinsea now. But I meant “from now on” 😂 I don’t plan on setting any more eggs until my own chickens start having fertile eggs, which I have no idea when that will be hahaha. I gave away 7 cockerels in the past week but I still have 1-2 in...

Ahhhhhh I just saw the news about the Bobbi eggs!!! So so so excited :pop Can’t wait to see how your hatch goes!!!! Hoping for lots of blue creams :fl

Wow I wonder if my incubator is having that same issue since your hatched sounded quite like mine!! Every single time I checked the temps (very frequently) they were all normal but I am convinced that the incubator is junk. I hope to use my new (to me) brinsea mini now.

Gorgeous babies!!! And so glad you were able to figure out and dispatch the murderous roo before he took another victim! That’s really scary, I’ve never heard of that happening before. I will have to keep a close eye out. I have one pullet with so much fluff that she is practically blind. I...

I have been using the incubator with 3 additional thermometers inside (govee and thermpro) and don’t know what the problem is even after all of these batches. There do seem to be some spots in the incubator that are warmer or cooler by a degree - found by experimenting and moving all of the...

So sorry Debbie!!! It is so hard when something like this happens! I hope you can figure it out to prevent further attacks :hugs

Thank you so much! That makes sense! This chick was hatched by my flock (when it was under the care of someone else) but I haven’t ever had any chocolates, so I would have been surprised. I do have a gold birchen silkie hen that I think is probably her mother - she has a darker brown tint to her...

I guess I’m wondering if it’s possible to tell the difference between sun bleached black and chocolate from just looking? Or do you have to know the genetics?

Hello! I have this silkie hen (she doesn’t really look like a hen because she has no crest, but she does lay eggs!) and I have always just assumed she was a sun bleached black. But I was looking at her today wondering if she might actually be chocolate. Especially next to my black chicks. In the...

I am still having a very hard time trying to tell 😂😂

Oh they are so cute! And that is such an amazing surprise to get silkied chicks out is smooth birds! What a fun project!! I was going to take a pic of my silkied frizzle guy but someone came yesterday afternoon to take some of my cockerels off of my hands (they are incredibly hard to get rid of...

Incredible that all 12 are developing!! So excited to follow along!!! 💕

If just looking for something super simple, I would only mark one gender (either all the males or all the females) then you know the unmarked are one gender and the marked are the other. I would probably use zip ties and change them every couple of weeks. But even just a permanent marker stripe...

By the way, I haven’t gotten a single one of these eggs with the watery air cells to hatch, but I have set all of them just in case!! Some of them start to develop but they all end up quitting somewhere in the first couple of weeks. Now if the air cell is still in tact but just a little bit...

This year I have gotten a whole lot of shipped eggs and MOST of the eggs have had that “air bubble” instead of an intact air cell. I call it a watery air cell but yes it is basically just a bubble with no membrane around it to keep it in tact. This has been happening in the eggs shipped to me...

So did you end up with silkied birds out of your smooth birds? That is so awesome so the roo and hens must have been carrying the silkies feather gene! Did any of those end up having the frizzle gene as well? I have a silkie with the frizzle gene and the feathers are kind of weird. I’m going to...

Oh my goodness isn’t he just gorgeous!!! I hope I don’t get this surprise in a couple of weeks with my am bantam babies! Fingers crossed that your last chick is a lovely female!!!

That is so exciting!!!!!! Fingers crossed for the rest of those eggs to keep hatching!!!!

Oooh please keep us posted on how that goes! Also I think that is a great idea - I had some eggs not develop under the Broodies when I put them under right away. Then after several days realized the air sacs were very jiggly. After being in the incubator for several days, you can make sure that...