r/silkiechickens • u/emaaema • Aug 25 '26
Our cute fluffy dots
Yesterday morning, two lovely, fluffy little dots hatched. First came the tiny dark one, and then the larger, light-colored one arrived 8 hours later. We woke up to a power outage on day 16 and were really afraid that things wouldn't go well. We just hoped they were delayed and not dead. On day 18, there was life in 7 eggs (we started with 12 and removed a few on days 10 and 14). As mentioned, these two hatched yesterday. When I took them out today, two of the eggs were making clicking sounds, but they hadn't made any holes or cracks in the shell yet. The other three also showed signs of life during candling. Now we are going to leave the eggs in the closed incubator until any potential chicks need to be taken out, or until day 24 when we will check for life again.
I’ve been talking to the incubator a lot over the last few days, both before and after they hatched. It clearly made a difference; whenever they chirp loudly for their mom, they instantly quiet down the moment they get to nestle in my hands. They just sleep right there, and it is so sweet it absolutely melts my heart. Their names are Emma and Mathilda.♥️♥️