Well its been more like 5 weeks as we have been getting chicks for a couple. I take the chicks and put them in a brooder after they are hatched. If I let the hen raise them she will get down out of the nest and leave the rest of eggs to be with the chick. I don't have a pen just for broody hens...
Well somehow I have 5 broody hens sitting on everything they can get. Its been this way for a couple of months. I don't know how old each egg is because the other hens keep laying new ones. I am getting at least a chick or two every day.
The three on the right are Broody,
I got a couple...
Mine are Lav Ameraucana male and WLH female. All of mine ended up with slate legs but the pullets show it sooner. Around 3 weeks.
Edit: Actually, the males did have white legs when grown.
Sorry, its been a while since I had them.:idunno
Working on a new batch this year using WLH hens and Lav...
Good luck finding a Silver.
I don't think you càn get Silver or Blue by breeding black to white.If you bred back to black, you would get black and white chicks.
You dont need anything special. You can ferment your regular feed. All you need is a bucket with a loose fitting lid or an ice chest works well too. Just put your feed in it, cover the feed with water, stir it up a couple times a day and in a couple of days you will smell the fermentation.
They do drink less water with fermented feed. Especially the chicks because I add a little bit of extra water to theirs.
I started fermenting to save money and I had read it's better for your chickens. But it has also gotten rid of my rat problem because it eliminates the feed they spilled on...