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No I have not got any lamp or heat, I have him in a cardboard box with lots of bedding and keeping him under cupboard lights in kitchen, will keep lights on over night and have hot water bottle. Should I still get a lamp?

Day 21, my chick arrived, mum was looking after it and the cockerel took no notice and stayed away at other end of coop and by the afternoon we found the hen and cockerel had been pecking his head all over one side, so took chick out immediately and looking after him indoors, he is walking fine...

Day 19 and waiting to see if my 1 egg hatches, I am tempted to buy some fertilised polish eggs to put under my silkie hen after this one but would she sit on them for another 3 weeks?

Would the mum look after the sexed chicks though or will she reject them?

That's great advice thanks, I will see if there are any day old chicks but what if I end up with cockerels, what do you do with them?

I have a pair of silkies and the hen has been sitting on just 1 egg the whole time, is it normal just to have 1 egg? Also the egg is due to hatch this weekend, I want the hen to look after the chick naturally like in the wild and I have not got a heat lamp. Should I go and buy a brooder/ lamp...