I have a Silkie x OEGB and she's the broodiest thing I've ever seen.
She first went broody after her first couple of eggs, in the winter. Then her chicks were 6 weeks old and she went broody again and the cycle goes on.
She'll set any eggs.
Here are some 4 day old babies that my broody hatched. Mom is a Silkie/EE cross and dad is a black with silver leakage Silkie. Each of the chicks has 5 toes but you can't see it in all of the pictures also they have different skin colors. The mom has blue skin and the dad black. Mom is doing a...
I'm not sure how but my silkie cross had 2 eggs one day and it had only been the 3rd time she had laid an egg. None of the other girls in that coop were laying eggs at the time yet plus the rest of the girls are RIRs. I was thinking that maybe she had the one hidden but where and how did she...