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The brooder is plenty big, but I don't have anything besides feeders and waterers, other than one perch in there, which they all ignore. I never thought that maybe they are bullying out of boredom? Ill add somethings of interest and see if that helps. Thanks for the ah-ha moment!

I hatched 3 silkies almost six weeks ago, I was given 2 more silkie chicks when the first ones were about 2 weeks old. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get them into the same brooder ever since iI got the 2. I built a bigger brooder and put a screened separation panel in between the 2...

I just incubated 12 "silkie" eggs. 9 hatched, 7 are definitely silkies but 2 are not. They are even smaller than the silkies, have 4 yellow toes and beak and their skin is not black. They just look like little yellow chicks but with feathered feet. I contacted the breeder that I got the eggs...

I am on day 17 with a dozen eggs in the Nurture Right 360. I didn't pay much attention to the day counter since I keep track on 2 different calenders, but the day counter still says 21. I did reset it when I put the eggs in and the turner does operate. Why is it sitting on 21 still?

Thank you. It turns out that the little one had been wet, it is lighter color now that I've gotten it all blow dried. For some reason, unbeknownst to me, it was sitting under the nipple waterer and the nipple leaked water on its back. Yes, I have changed the nipple on the waterer and moved its...

I'm curious what you think. I wound up with this little silkie (Long story of how that came to be) I do not know what color its parents are. It looked like cute little yellowish chick when I got it at 2 days old. Three weeks later....The color in this photo is horrible and it looks like it...

I am now using a Nurture Right 360 after 2 unsuccessful hatching attempts with a different incubator. I have a govee hygrometer inside the incubator. They are the same on temp, the govee slightly lower on humidity reading. I have been trying to keep the humidity at 40-45 which it does...until...

I just set my incubator with 6 silkie eggs this morning, due to some odd circumstances a friend brought me 2 more silkie eggs this afternoon. Would it be ok to put them in the incubator still? It has been running a few hours now..

My silkie that hatched late and needed assistance is doing better thanks to advice found here about using viatamins and feeding egg yolk.. Its toes were curled and it could only scoot backwads. Its toes are perfect and it can walk like a normal chick now, albeit a little wobbly. However it wont...

My late hatching silkie runt has curled toes on one foot. Ive watched several videos about splinting them. My question is how do you remove the tape and not pull the festhers off its foot. Thats gotta hurt! (All my silkie chicks have very feathered toes.)

Thank you, very interesting information! From the previous answer and the link you provided the temperature and humidity not being consistent throughout the incubator seems to be the most logical answer. With a forced air incubator how do you combat that issue? I understand having a separate...

Thanks for the info. I will definitely do that if I decide to hatch more. This first go round has been both a great learning experience and a heartbreaking one. I never realized I would get emotionally attached to unhatched chicken eggs! lol

Forced air. I dont know the brand, it was a hand me down from someone I know. I think if I decide to do this again I will invest in a different one.

Thank you. I "booted" the one with curly toes, sadly the one with both curly toes and spraddle legs did not make it. I suspect it had other problems too.

Thank you. I will get one and check it before I try hatching eggs again. Naively, I relied on the incubators temp and humidity gauges. According to them it held steady throughout the process but sadly, as you suggested it must have had hot and cold spots.

A couple more questions about my silkie chicks... This is my first time hatching eggs. The chicks that hatched on day 19 and 21 are doing well and have been in the brooder for 5 days now. One late bloomer hatched yesterday and is still in the incubator. How long before I put the last one in...

Newbie silkie hatcher trying to figure things out. I locked down the incubator on day 18 with 11 eggs. Day 20 the first one hatched. Day 21 2 more hatched. All 3 of these were healthy normal chicks. Day 22 2 hatched, one with curled toes and one with both curled toes and spraddle legs. I was...