My silkie has laid 7 eggs in 7 days if I leave them there will she go broody and set on them or am I wasting eggs waiting for her to do this?She was broody a couple months ago and sat on two eggs that was suppose to be fertile and they turned out not to be so we took the eggs and her nest and she was fine with that.Maybe its to late in the season to want a new hatch of babies its starts gettin cold at night in oct..
I would think she would go broody. But I don't know about your weather and chicks---here they are pretty much fine all year.
In the 50s in oct.in the daytime and in the 30s at night
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The hard part with silkies is to have them NOT be broody. I have never seen chickens so determined to be mothers in my life! I live in Northern Michigan and one of my hens hatched out chicks in the middle of December. It was a horrible winter but with only a 100 bulb lamp in a corner of the coop, they did just fine.
Good Lord: I'm with JYL, they are tough little buggers, and more determined than any bird I have ever seen. And they will fight anything or anybody trying to touch one of their babies. I don't know green but I'd put my money on her going broody. Haystack
Its been so hot here(80s and 90s)will the eggs be ok?
Eggs will be fine.
Thanks,I`m so glad that I can ask questions here and I get an answer quickly.I was on another forum and I asked this same question and am still waiting the answer and that was 5 days ago,think I`ll just stick with you guys allways get a quick answer.
we're quick and we're gooood!
Yeah! Even in the middle of the night, in our nighties and rubber boots. LOL. You rock JYL
There was 11 eggs in the nest yesterday so I took out 6 and she is laying on the rest of them,she started last night and she is still there this morning so I would say she went broody again.So do I start counting from last night or this morning?Sep 12 or 13th
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