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Now my silkies get the same treatment everyone else does. Moved to the garage or into a separate pen.

Because the silkies were playing musical eggs and chicks, I had to keep removing chicks and putting them in the brooder until they all hatched, then I broke the mamas from being broody. That was my last experiment with attempting to allow silkies to coparent. Lol. It was like I'd go out and get...

Those are some mean chickens. I move all my broodies away from the flock after having issues. I've had hens break the eggs while fighting over who gets to sit on the nest or trying to push a broody off the eggs to lay a fresh egg there. Had staggered hatches from new eggs laid under hens and...

My broody got feather lice. I just found a louse on two of the newly hatched chicks. Just saw this morning. Usually with my adults I use a permethrin spray. How do I treat chicks that are just days old?

I finally candeled the schrodingers egg that hadn't hatched yet. It was empty. But I got 8 babies out of 9 eggs. Not bad.

Blacks, blues, and an oddball!

I am hoping it hatches. I never candled her eggs. So for all I know it could be clear. But I've got my fingers crossed it's just slower than its siblings. Since they just started hatching this morning and 7 hatched within 3 hours of each other, it's got plenty of time. I may candle it tonight so...

My crossbeak silkie broody has babies hatching a day early. All have hatched but one egg so far. I'm going to cross my fingers it hatches. I love it when they hatch 100%.

I didn't want to. But she was persistent. Last time she was moved to her pen, so no one would bother her. She just was horrible. This time she kept going broody in one of the nest boxes the ducks used. She chased the ducks away from it. I kept taking her eggs and she kept laying more. Finally...

She didn't poop the nest. She even brooded in a nest box right out on the yard and no extra eggs were laid in the nest and no one bothered her. She was. Model broody this time around. She didn't even peck me.

My silkie mix broody that was horrible at it her first go around and pooped the nest and lost all her eggs? She successfully hatched 4 babies out! No issues. She had a few eggs that went bad. But it was expected. The EE eggs I had just found but wasn't sure exactly when they were laid, they...

My silkie mix that lost all her eggs during the heat of the summer and pooped the nest has been trying to go broody again. We took all her eggs yesterday and she laid another to sit on this morning. I know it was hers. Brown, small, shaped like my silkie eggs. So I let her have her egg and added...

I've switched to using hay instead of aspen shavings in the nest boxes. I've had a LOT less eggs get squished by my big fat girls.

I am so done raising babies in a brooder. No more. The most I will do is separate mom while she's broody until the chicks are big enough to run. My Buff Orpington girls are too sweet to defend their babies. Not my Wyandottes. They are mean mama's and their babies do great right on the yard with...

I never wanted a broody. My "plan" was to have 12 egg laying hens. :| That turned into losing 2 as chicks, and then having 9 hens and a roo as my EE baby, my favorite, turned out to be a boy. I planned on raising no chickens. As I had simply bought layers. Not broody breeds. I knew nothing...

I would assume thin shells on the EE eggs, except my other first time hen that hatched chicks last month and pooped the nest twice, she hatched two eggs from the same EE hen with no problem.

It's supposedly hatching day for my silkie mix broody. Lately eggs have been hatching a day early. Maybe the heat. Last week when I checked her... she had lost two eggs. I assumed she broke them and ate them. The shells are in pieces in the nest. She had also pooped the nest. This is the broody...

Ok, now my first time silkie mix broody has pooped the nest. Her food and water are on the opposite end of an 8ft pen. She's also either broken or eaten 2 of her 10 eggs. Apparently my hens are just not great broodies. The only ones I can count on for good hatch rates and guaranteed no nest...

I have a broody in an 8ft pen now with her nest on one end and the food and water on the other. She's also a first time broody. She stayed broody for a week and a half or two weeks before I collected enough EE eggs to put under her for a hatch. She didn't poop the nest while she was being broody...