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This is my last group of photos I promise, but here are our two sweet babies. They are healthy and mama hen sure is a mother hen! She guards them fiercely. She has now done the two most enormous poops that I can't imagine how that even all was fitting in her body!!! Introducing Buffy...

Yes. Mine didn't go pale but honestly she mustn't have pooped for the last 2 weeks, so I'm sure they are just feeling uncomfortable and/or nutritionally deprived. Good luck with the 6!

Well I am feeling pretty dang happy, but I think my hen is too. She did the world's most enormous poop, and getting that out has to feel good, plus she has two babes. Life is good :)

And finally...... this <3 Blue cream (porcelain) silkie!

And now this! Our little Easter chickie is about to emerge! (Yes - I lifted her up for the photo. the other little baby was tucked underneath her happily :D ) I am so excited it seems that both eggs have hatched!

Well, this morning, the morning of Day 23, the first baby looks just great under the mama and her second egg was still intact. I took it to go candle and it was clearly moving and shaking as I picked it up, so I just slipped it back right under my hen. Ugh. I hope this thing hatches!!!! I...

So gorgeous. My little Sikie (who I posted pictures of above) and her buddy, a white Silkie were both that age, maybe even a hair younger, when they did exactly this to a newborn little bantam Easter Egger we put in with them. They took turns and it was the craziest thing. It was absolutely...

Well GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! ZERO pipping this morning. Went to sporting games, came home and found this <3. The other egg hasn't pipped yet. This is a baby buff Silkie from nice quality stock. So exciting! It might sound silly, but I am just so happy with one. I am going to be...

Well, no pipping in my broody's 2 eggs this morning on Day 22. She is still holding strong though.

OK thanks all who replied to give words of encouragement here! I really do appreciate it! So glad also to hear it might not be the end of the world for me to lift her and take a peek too. I've only peeked twice but of course will again in the morning of day 22 tomorrow to see if anything is...

If anyone has some words of encouragement (or discouragement if appropriate!) please feel free. I have my Silky currently on Day 21 with shipped hatching eggs, and there are no pips. We only had 2 viable eggs at Day 15 and I've not candled since then, but they DID look great at that stage and...

Well, I am very far from being an expert, and frankly, if our two hatching eggs actually hatch, it will likely be in spite of my efforts and not because of my efforts lol. Still, we are on day 16 and two from my original 9, mostly scrambled shipped eggs, are still going strong. I candled on...

In preparation for the hopefully hatch next week of our two remaining viable eggs that my Silkie is sitting on, I'd love to know what the hen typically does once the chicks pip. Do they still sit on them or do they get off??

I have had the same problem trying to move my broody! The pen I moved her to has no ceiling, and somehow my limited flight Silkie flew out and then got locked out and couldn't get back in. I ended up putting her back where she started in her elevated nesting box in the main coop. I still need...

I recently got my Silkie broody putting 6 golf balls in two of our three nesting boxes. Our other hen, a Brahma toyed with the idea for a day or two and spent some time sitting on them, then the Silkie took over and just hunkered down. I waited about 5 days before I was certain she was broody...