Recent content by malan37209

tried that with one of my bigger girls but she smashed them. got a small cochin sitting on two quail eggs and six of her eggs, for 14 days now and they are still intact. saw a youtube video that shows that they will take to them but there is an initial language barrier between the two species...

best bet would be the game hens, I one that will go broody with more than 8 eggs, she's not a normal broody though, I have to physically separate her from the others, since she is very aggressive when she is broody, she's not one to stay in her nest and hiss at you, she will get up and chase any...

the idea for lock down really is to keep the humidity high before the first chick starts piping the shell so they don't dry out and get shrink wrapped, and to keep the eggs in one position so the chick can hatch without it having to turn every which way. a regular hen would know when to start...

so started breeding black and white silkies to try to get new colors other than white/black chicks. out of a total of 23 eggs 18 hatched, 16 white. 1 black, and my new favorite a partridge silkie.

winner might have been chosen, but I would like to present Mike, my white silkie.

Old english game (mother) X Black silkie (father) both brothers/sisters

14 black silkies 7 white silkies 9 barred rocks 3 old E games 6 cornish croses (crossed with black silkie) 1 mut (thinking rhode island red but lays white eggs) 2 naked necks 42 birds total BYC TOTAL = 17011

put some eggs in it......

so I was up all night awake, thinking that some how a silkies irregular feathers might have something to do with their inherent broodiness. (fine aluminum particles naturally found in the soil and sand where they dust bathe coat their irregular feathers and acts as a shield to keep in a...

what works better yet is to have an empty shop vac cannister as the nesting box and just wrap the inside of it with aluminum foil for maximum effects. edit: Don't buy the cheap foil, go for the sturdy industrial kind so the hen doesn't scratch it it lose and the chicks can eat it. I wanted...

not sure about 'standard', but she should be able to sit on a dozen eggs laid by her or similar size. or at least that's the general rule for most chickens(but not all) my silkies can sit on a dozen silkie eggs, but those are not much bigger than a half dollar, and they don't usually wait to...

that's usually what happens when you introduce a new hen to a flock, either she will kick all the other girls butts and be to head hen from then on, or she herself will get ruffled up and put in her place. if you have a nice rooster, he should be able to break up the girls if things get to out...

3-4 weeks or untill they have some chicks under her. all my hens that have hatched eggs spend no more than three days, after the first chick is hatched, on the nest. she will keep her chicks under her for that long to give enough time for all eggs to hatch, but she will eventually need to get up...

lock down today. 10 eggs left out of 17 5 silver laced wyandottes/ 2 silkie/ 3 cochin only using the incubator because all the other hens are either broody or busy brooding their little ones. all I have are two wyandottes that have not gone broody once since i've got them two years ago. but...

had this hen for three months. she was given to us by a friend. she had 17 eggs when she went broody and tried to incubate all of them exactly as she is doing with her chicks, with her wings spread out to try to cover them all up. in the end I only let her keep a dozen and at the time of writing...