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Thanks-I appreciate your response. I do not even know if she will hatch babies, but want to be ready!

I have a silkie brooder who stays in the favorite nesting box (1 of 3). She is little and picked on by bigger hens. They will kick her out of the nesting box and lay. As soon as that hen is done, she returns to sit on the eggs. We remove the non-silkie eggs every day and will let her hatch...

No, I never tried that, but good advice for the future. He was one of my first attempt at having chickens (and COVID therapy/self-care) and I remember looking at his beak and looked it up. I read that some cull their chicks with crossed beak-no way!! My chickens are my pets- AND they just happen...

My favorite silkie was a crossbeak (severe). We fed him separately with an adaptive bowl. He was just the sweetest. He was growing and holding his own in the pack. Unfortunately we lost him to a stray dog who roamed into our yard. I will never forget “Scissie.”

Thank you-always look forward to my weekly posts!

I am new to the group and have enjoyed and learned so much about chickens (and their caretakers) from this site. I saw a silkie chicken being cared for on the Dr. Pol show and fell in love-with the chicken, not Dr. Pol! I bought my first chickens as pandemic therapy. I free ranged and lost all...