Giving my silkie hen 6 week old chicks

[lovinsilkies18]

Hi,
I have a silkie hen that is my only adult chicken. I have 2, 4 week old chicks in the brooder along with a 2 week wyandotte and eventually 2, day old polish. I was wondering if there is a good way of introducing the chicks batch at a time to the silkie hen? Do I need to worry to much considering the silkie is tiny and can barely see and the chicks are small as well?
Thanks, any advice is appreciated!

 

[missnu01]

The chicks can't be with the silkie until they are fully feathered and since you are introducing a gaggle of small chickens to one lone silkie it shouldn't be too big a deal. Give them a week together where they are together but separate. Like a dog crate in the coop with the silkie. After a week let them mingle supervised. And that should be it

 

[OlivesMama]

I probably did it totally wrong, but I got a 4 month old Silkie pullet and 3 Barred Rocks at 3 days old and put them all in the same brooder. I didn't have any issues, and now my Silkie is a surrogate mama to them. I got 2 more chicks 2 weeks later and did have problems trying to integrate them with the rest of the brood. They are now residing in a brooder of their own, which makes it easier because they need it warmer than the nearly 3 week old chicks. Maybe I just got lucky because the Silkie is only 4 months old? Since doing this, I've seen others using a broody Silkie to raise their chicks!

 

[lovinsilkies18]

Alrighty, thanks all!