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A few baby silkies hatched! ** UPDATED PICS!!!
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Hey congrats. They are cute little things!
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More pics, 5 babies as of this morning!!
It's a whole, huge soap opera drama as to why they're in different, separate boxes that the babies can't get out of and the different set ups seen. Believe me, this has been a learning experience!!
They're really doing well though and I'm waiting on four more to hatch. I can not wait!!!!!
It's a whole, huge soap opera drama as to why they're in different, separate boxes that the babies can't get out of and the different set ups seen. Believe me, this has been a learning experience!!
Geesh and all I want is an egg....They are sooo cute !
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Be careful with the chickies walking on the slippery newspaper.
I love them they're so cute.
I love them they're so cute.
Soooooooo cute!!! That must be so exciting!
If you want to share, we'd be interested in the soap opera drama too. I had wondered about the set-ups when I saw the first plastic box.
I'm not even learning yet, but I'd love to raise babies someday!
(Though I'm wondering if the little Jap is gonna end up being my roo, I'll probably never get any. He's too little to reach the standard girls! He tries though ... )
trish
If you want to share, we'd be interested in the soap opera drama too. I had wondered about the set-ups when I saw the first plastic box.
I'm not even learning yet, but I'd love to raise babies someday!
(Though I'm wondering if the little Jap is gonna end up being my roo, I'll probably never get any. He's too little to reach the standard girls! He tries though ... )
trish
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I'll do my best to summarize... B1 (first broody), B2 (2nd broody), B3 (3rd broody)
- B1 starts setting on 4 eggs the day we leave for a week vacation (I didn't mark the original 4 eggs
)
- While away the other three hens are laying eggs under her and in other nests.
- When I get back from vacation, two more girls went broody so I had three hens setting on 11 eggs.
- I wanted to try and keep them all together in the coop to see how it went. This proved to be comical because they would change nests every day (musical nests). Anyway, it worked okay otherwise, the rooster would watch over them and the other hen would stand by them.
- Day 21 (Thursday) B3 happens to be sitting on the nest that has the first egg hatch (musical nests). She actually has two hatch by Friday.
- Friday, B2 hatches a baby, leaving B1, the original broody, still on eggs with no baby.
- Saturday, B3 has a THIRD baby and B1 decides she's had enough of this crap and she takes B2's nest along with her one baby. So I go in to find B2 and B3 in the same nest with three babies, B1 is on B2's nest with a baby and two eggs not being sit on in the third nest!!
- I take B2 away from B3 and give her one baby out of the three and stick her on the two eggs that are uncovered. They all seem content with this arrangement and the babies could care less.
- Throughout the day, the babies are hopping over to different mothers, the mothers are getting off their nests to find their wandering babies. This explanation does not do it justice, it was a nightmare, I couldn't keep them all straight. Not to mention, there were still 5 eggs to hatch and the mothers weren't really showing the babies food and water (at this point the first baby was two days old)
- Soooooo, I take away the original nest boxes, prepare the plastic boxes for each mother (where the babies can't get out but the mothers can) and put food and water in each and show the babies where it is, etc. They do great the rest of the weekend.
- As of yesterday, day four after the hatching started, there are five babies, four viable eggs left and the mothers and babies are all out of the boxes I made (
) and living happily like a village, raising each other's children, walking around and talking up a storm. The rooster and other hen are helping out.
I'm not sure what to do with the other four eggs, there is a pip in one this morning but they're definitely not staying on them like they should... though it's going to be 101 degrees here today, it may hatch out on it's own!!
So, how's that for a learning experience?!?! I've had plenty of day olds before, just not had my own girls hatch them out, so this has been interesting...
- B1 starts setting on 4 eggs the day we leave for a week vacation (I didn't mark the original 4 eggs
- While away the other three hens are laying eggs under her and in other nests.
- When I get back from vacation, two more girls went broody so I had three hens setting on 11 eggs.
- I wanted to try and keep them all together in the coop to see how it went. This proved to be comical because they would change nests every day (musical nests). Anyway, it worked okay otherwise, the rooster would watch over them and the other hen would stand by them.
- Day 21 (Thursday) B3 happens to be sitting on the nest that has the first egg hatch (musical nests). She actually has two hatch by Friday.
- Friday, B2 hatches a baby, leaving B1, the original broody, still on eggs with no baby.
- Saturday, B3 has a THIRD baby and B1 decides she's had enough of this crap and she takes B2's nest along with her one baby. So I go in to find B2 and B3 in the same nest with three babies, B1 is on B2's nest with a baby and two eggs not being sit on in the third nest!!
- I take B2 away from B3 and give her one baby out of the three and stick her on the two eggs that are uncovered. They all seem content with this arrangement and the babies could care less.
- Throughout the day, the babies are hopping over to different mothers, the mothers are getting off their nests to find their wandering babies. This explanation does not do it justice, it was a nightmare, I couldn't keep them all straight. Not to mention, there were still 5 eggs to hatch and the mothers weren't really showing the babies food and water (at this point the first baby was two days old)
- Soooooo, I take away the original nest boxes, prepare the plastic boxes for each mother (where the babies can't get out but the mothers can) and put food and water in each and show the babies where it is, etc. They do great the rest of the weekend.
- As of yesterday, day four after the hatching started, there are five babies, four viable eggs left and the mothers and babies are all out of the boxes I made (
I'm not sure what to do with the other four eggs, there is a pip in one this morning but they're definitely not staying on them like they should... though it's going to be 101 degrees here today, it may hatch out on it's own!!
So, how's that for a learning experience?!?! I've had plenty of day olds before, just not had my own girls hatch them out, so this has been interesting...
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Do silkies go broody a lot? Sounds like it. Maybe I should make DH build me another coop for silkies and let Blind Tiny live in the silkie pen.
(I'm looking for a silkie or 2 to live with my blind pullet because she lives alone right now.)
(I'm looking for a silkie or 2 to live with my blind pullet because she lives alone right now.)
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