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- Sep 16, 2015
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they're still adorable.
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they're still adorable.
with mixes like that youll probably have to wait a while to tell, it may just be the self blue leaking through
Just had one of my silkies hatch 3 weeks ago, one 2 weeks ago & this week the third went broody. Trying to discourage the 3rd one, but its not going real well lol
I have two Silkies and seems like when one goes broody the other one will also. I let them sit/brood an empty nest to give their bodies a rest after laying so many eggs in a row. Don't know why even older Silkies can still lay 4 to 5 big eggs per week (1.25 up to 1.5-oz). We are minimally zoned so can't raise more chickens -- so I let Silkies brood an empty nest, make sure we take them out a couple times a day to eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise before they go running back to their empty nest. After 2 or 3 weeks they get bored of brooding an empty nest and come out rested and refreshed to join the rest of the flock normally. I thought you HAD to break a broody but decided the methods were just too mean. Any breed in our yard that wants to go broody is free to do so -- we just make sure they eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise a couple times each day. Sometimes we noticed some of the hens look like they went broody but were really just being reclusive in a nest while they were molting.
Thanks for that bit of knowledge. Glad there was no ill effects.Just had one of my silkies hatch 3 weeks ago, one 2 weeks ago
I have two Silkies and seems like when one goes broody the other one will also. I let them sit/brood an empty nest to give their bodies a rest after laying so many eggs in a row. Don't know why even older Silkies can still lay 4 to 5 big eggs per week (1.25 up to 1.5-oz). We are minimally zoned so can't raise more chickens -- so I let Silkies brood an empty nest, make sure we take them out a couple times a day to eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise before they go running back to their empty nest. After 2 or 3 weeks they get bored of brooding an empty nest and come out rested and refreshed to join the rest of the flock normally. I thought you HAD to break a broody but decided the methods were just too mean. Any breed in our yard that wants to go broody is free to do so -- we just make sure they eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise a couple times each day. Sometimes we noticed some of the hens look like they went broody but were really just being reclusive in a nest while they were molting.
I have two Silkies and seems like when one goes broody the other one will also. I let them sit/brood an empty nest to give their bodies a rest after laying so many eggs in a row. Don't know why even older Silkies can still lay 4 to 5 big eggs per week (1.25 up to 1.5-oz). We are minimally zoned so can't raise more chickens -- so I let Silkies brood an empty nest, make sure we take them out a couple times a day to eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise before they go running back to their empty nest. After 2 or 3 weeks they get bored of brooding an empty nest and come out rested and refreshed to join the rest of the flock normally. I thought you HAD to break a broody but decided the methods were just too mean. Any breed in our yard that wants to go broody is free to do so -- we just make sure they eat/drink/dust-bathe/exercise a couple times each day. Sometimes we noticed some of the hens look like they went broody but were really just being reclusive in a nest while they were molting.
I've had one laying for about 3 months now and has gone broody twice. The first time it went on for 2 weeks and this last time I keep taking her off several times a day and put her outside with the others to move around. It only took 3 days of doing this and she finally gave up and stopped being broody. Its just the same one none of the others have done it. Thank goodness!!