I'm a newbie with silkies and just had my first one hatch in the incubator!! (From my silkie hen's very first eggs). I am a bit concerned about the other two eggs that have pipped but no progress. They both pipped yesterday morning, and one poked a hole through so I was hopeful and thought that...
7 eggs in the incubator - 3 pipped that I can see. It's day 20ish (don't remember the exact time I put them in - sorry, I was kid free and it was a project I did while drinking wine... don't judge me lol). Anyway, this one I can see is alive and has been working since about 8am through this...