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If anyone is still interested... The three girl pals are still at it with 6 hatched and 15 left to share. The chicks are from one to five days old. One silkie chick did not make it out of the shell last night. Someone suggested I should one momma hen back to the flock???? She seems to have...

They hatched two last night!! I went out today to water and feed and the shells of two eggs were kicked out. Princess the silkie took over the mothering as I suspected she would. The other two went back to sitting. In answer to who would pluck her feathers out it was Taffy the original broody...

Soooo cute today. Taffy was spread out across all the space with her wings covering The Frizz and all the eggs. I did not have time to get my camera. Frizz just sings out there like silkies do when they are little in the house at night. I hope this goes well this weekend. Fortunately we are...

Here is the photo of the three together. As you can see"The Frizz" has bumped "Taffy " to the middle and " Princess" the silkie is on the outer edge. And there they sit and wait and wait. Perfectly content to let me get the photo. They are not going anywhere until they are done with it! Today...

Still going strong all three of them. I will try to get a photo today when they are all there. I want to lift them to see how many eggs they are" guarding" but I do not want to disturb them. I find it fascinating that somehow through nature they have communicated with each other to work this...

I have three sweet girls( only two pictured here) sharing a clutch of over 7 eggs. They share the duty of mother hen and alternate who sits, who eats and who rotates around the circle. They have been at it over 16 days. I am going to let nature decide how it lays out. The third one is a frizzle...