WOW!! I do believe those two hens of yours are the prettiest I've seen yet!! Who was your source for SFH?
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Congrats to everyone on babies, and Bulldogma....yikes! I'm so glad some made it!
A local BYcer won a lot of chicks off rareauctions.com and included in the shipment were some SFHs...and they are moving to my house tomorrow!
My month olds managed to survive me being gone for almost 4 days. Somehow. I came home and wasn't happy with how some of them looked. But they look fine now, and I'm never getting chicks before a trip ever again. Several have crests...too cute.
My broody is sitting firm! Eggs look good....fingers crossed on a hatch in a couple weeks. I never see her off the nest. Ever. She won't starve, will she? ( my logical sense is out the window when it comes to my critters).
Uh oh...trouble may be brewing in paradise. I went out to check on my broody, who had three eggs this AM, and found her arguing with another hen over whose eggs they are....with one of the SFH eggs smashedand a Silkie eggs, new-laid, under her. I need to take the other hen out of the coop entirely.
There was an embryo in thereso they are developing.
Temporary crisis aversion....I grabbed an egg from the box on the counter and gave the new egg and the one off the counter to the new wanna-be broody and now both have 2 eggs. I am sick about the crushed SFH egg.
WOW!! I do believe those two hens of yours are the prettiest I've seen yet!! Who was your source for SFH?
give her some fake eggs until you have the eggs you want her to incubate. they don't need to start incubating day 1. one of my broodies last year sat for almost 2 months before i gave her new chicks. she never did get any real eggs. just babies miraculously popping out of plaster eggs. LOLThey were sitting side by side this evening when I checked again, so cute! I should replace those Silkie eggs with something else...I don't need more black and blue Silkies. But I'm loving the Silkiebators! LOL
There may be a third broody....one of my show Silkie hens looks to be sitting too. But I worry about her....she does this, no eggs are there, and then she lays an egg after a few days then wanders off. I've wondered off and on if she is trying to bind up.