Hi Jean-
Thanks for posting. It very well could have been the shipping not sure. I was just making an observation to see if anyone else seemed to see the same things w/ there silvers. I am not in anyway unhappy. I am actually very happy w/ what I have so far. I believe the first batch of eggs you sent me I think you sent 3 maybe 4 silvers and that first batch only 2 hatched and w/ both those chicks they seemed weaker than the others. And this last batch I think there were 4 silvers again and something happened to one of the eggs in the beginning. Then 1 I think developed until like Day 17 maybe 18 and then died as when I opened the egg to see what went wrong it was a fully developed chick w/ the exception of where the chick is attached to the egg I think some of the insides hadn\'t gone into the chick. I ended up having 2 hatch, and the 2nd one that hatched had a really hard time and I did everything to revive it, but it just seemed weak.
So right now I have 2 7wk old Silvers, and 1 almost 1 week old silver. Let\'s hope there\'s at least one male and one female in those three.
Now, as for your whites w/ your new rooster, they popped out of there eggs like it was no big deal.
Kim