Rural Gardening: Very sad thing happened today., 0 by green04735

green04735 wrote:
I have silkies along with my bigger breeds.They are sweet and small,they do not fly very high,they lay small eggs and when they are not broody they lay about every other day,but they go broody a lot so your egg production is small.They will lay on any egg and hatch it,they are very good mothers,when they go broody they will sit on air and try to hatch it.They egg very little compared to the larger breeds.This is my little one that hatched out last friday in the incubator.His mother was broody and I wanted some white ones so I ordered from ebay and had to take this one egg from her so she would set on the 12 I got from ebay,this one was only a few days from hatching so I put it in the incubator and it hatched so I am the mama untill I can try to introduce him or her into the flock.It likes snuggling up to its bear