Silkie and project egg Hatch-A-Long

[Cloverr39]

Eggies have gone into lockedown. Everyone was showing some moment. Egg 2 gave me a bit of a scare by not moving at all when I was candling, but I checked again later and the chick was definitely moving in there.

 

[GreenJay]

Lockdown time!!
come on Abigail/p25!

 

[Cloverr39]

I've heard of Silkies hatching sooner than day 21, but it's never happened to me. Before I got my brinsea incubator I often had chicks hatching days past the hatch date due to temperature issues.
When I candled them when putting them into lockdown I noticed egg 9 was very dark. It was mostly dark with not much room between the darkness and the airsack. All the eggs were set at the same time (except 32 which is a day younger than the rest) yet here we are.

It's about day 18,5 and we have an external pip! The little overachiever is egg 9 AKA @Aardyn 's Demeter/Chiron.

I'm not a hatching expert (I've done maybe about 10 incubator hatches thus far) so I'm not sure if this is a cause for concern. Please let me know it is.

 

[GreenJay]

come on chickies!

I've heard of Silkies hatching sooner than day 21, but it's never happened to me. Before I got my brinsea incubator I often had chicks hatching days past the hatch date due to temperature issues.
When I candled them when putting them into lockdown I noticed egg 9 was very dark. It was mostly dark with not much room between the darkness and the airsack. All the eggs were set at the same time (except 32 which is a day younger than the rest) yet here we are.

It's about day 18,5 and we have an external pip! The little overachiever is egg 9 AKA @Aardyn 's Demeter/Chiron.

I'm not a hatching expert (I've done maybe about 10 incubator hatches thus far) so I'm not sure if this is a cause for concern. Please let me know it is.

I don't know anything about incubating and even less about silkies, I just cheer them on . Let me tag a couple of silkie hatching experts -

@2ndTink and @Debbie292d

 

[Debbie292d]

I've heard of Silkies hatching sooner than day 21, but it's never happened to me. Before I got my brinsea incubator I often had chicks hatching days past the hatch date due to temperature issues.
When I candled them when putting them into lockdown I noticed egg 9 was very dark. It was mostly dark with not much room between the darkness and the airsack. All the eggs were set at the same time (except 32 which is a day younger than the rest) yet here we are.

It's about day 18,5 and we have an external pip! The little overachiever is egg 9 AKA @Aardyn 's Demeter/Chiron.

I'm not a hatching expert (I've done maybe about 10 incubator hatches thus far) so I'm not sure if this is a cause for concern. Please let me know it is.

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My last hatch I had two come early. That was my OdoBan hatchalong and I believe two came on day 19, a few more on Day 20, and the rest Day 21. Some sites will tell you silkies take 19 days but most say 21. I've usually found it to be a few always on Day 20 though.

 

[Cloverr39]

I'm not quite sure what's going on but we have more tiny pips. A few other eggs have made very tiny little bumps in their shells. The ones I see are eggs 29, 28, and 16, but there may be more that I've missed cause the pips are so small.

I wonder... Maybe hearing my 5 loud, chattery budgies is encouraging the chicks to pip? They seem to be making little peeps in the eggs whenever one of the budgies makes a louder chirp. Though I also hatched last year in the same room with the same incubator and the same settings and I didn't get any pips this early.

 

[Nero70002]

Yay Ares! Apollo and Alouette it’s hatching time!

 

[NagemTX]

All of you chicks need to hatch and not give your surrogate mom a hard time!

 

[Antiocheggers]

come on chickies!


I don't know anything about incubating and even less about silkies, I just cheer them on . Let me tag a couple of silkie hatching experts -

@2ndTink and @Debbie292d

Those are the ones you need for silkie advice. @2ndTink and @Debbie292d. I recommend them very highly!

 

[2ndTink]

I've had them pip at 19 days, 18.5 days is early, but if they are ready, they're ready. They may take more time before zipping. What was your incubation temperature, what day did you set them, and what time of day?