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Thanks for all the thoughts. You were right, she moved back to her original nest box after a few night of attempting to sit on everyone's eggs. She hasn't attempted that again since & and the chicks are doing well. One of my silkie's roosts. (the other one, Princess just likes to set :)...

Our darling silkie "Princess" decided to become broody more than a month ago. We finally stuffed 4 chicks under her 2 weeks ago. She was doing great, teaching the chicks to drink, eat, scratch, peck etc.etc and keeping them warm too. Last night we came home to find her back in the nest box...

We had the same thing happen to our silkie. She laid eggs for a few weeks and then decided she was going to hatch eggs instead. We let her sit for over a month and she didn't look like she was going to give up soon... We had to give her some plastic easter eggs filled with rocks since she...

I have a question for all of you washingtonians... Yes, I searched and read a ton of other threads on this... but am getting lots of mixed comments... We are completing our new large coop (6x8 footprint) and are putting up the roof this weekend. We are debating between just using the...

So, I have been really worried that our beloved silkies may start to crow someday (we aren't allowed to keep roosters). Any thoughts? Is it too early to know for sure?