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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    She adopted 6 chicks. Virginia has a rule about buying chicks so it was 6 or none. We are moving them crack to the coop Friday night when the cold snap is over. My laundry room is smelling pretty chickeny
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    We decided to put the broody in a pet carrier with her nest and bring her into the laundry room next to the chicks. We did this in the early evening so she would hear but not see the chicks. After dark my daughter took out the last eggs and slipped in the chicks. Our broody tucked them right...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    We are going to slip in the chicks at night, the mornings are pure chaos here already. Tonight is the big night, I got 6 day old chicks from the feed stores shipment today. I'm trying to decide if we leave the broody in her nest, it's not in the best location under the nest boxes, or if we move...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    I'm picking up some chicks at Southern States tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well with the adoption. The two eggs in the incubator are not looking great I don't have high hopes for them but I am not willing to give up on them yet.
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    I'm picking up some chicks at Southern States tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well with the adoption. The two eggs in the incubator are not looking great I don't have high hopes for them but I am not willing to give up on them yet.
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    Thanks for the reply. We will either move the broody or mark the eggs next time (probably both!), lesson learned the hard way again. We are going to try again in the future. One of the big reasons we keep a rooster around is to hatch our own chicks and if the chickens could do the brooding I'd...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    We are definitely done letting her sit, it's to hard on her and on meI can't take the stress of worrying about the horrible hatch anymore. We are taking the last two eggs from her and putting them in the incubator. The plan is to try and get her to adopt chicks with the brooder ready to go in...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    Thanks, this does help. I wish we would have marked the eggs or separated her out. I feel like we screwed this up by having eggs hatching at different times. I feel like she's in incubator mode because she still has developing eggs under her so when the earlier ones hatch she's not switching to...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    At first we thought it was the other hens sine they were all cooped up with the snow. We fenced the broody off and thought we were good then the same thing happened. I've never seen a rat around the coop, doesn't mean they are not there, but this doesn't have a predator feel to it. My gut is...
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    Dead hatched chicks from a broody silkie

    We tried letting our Silkie hatch out some chicks and it has gone horribly wrong. We want to attempt this again in the future but before we do I want to know if the issue was human or chicken. The chicken who went broody is a 10 month old Silkie, this was her first time going broody and our...
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