Broodie silkie ?

[SSTupperware]

No she isn't and isn't laying yet, and I am unsure of age. So I have a lot of variables, but it's the wife's pet and were going to place Quail eggs under when she is, so My question I guess is?... How often does your silkie go broodie? at what age? I imagine she will be laying in a month or so... Thanks

 

[Stef82]

Well, I can't really help you on this as ours just started to lay eggs over a month ago and she's a year old. She would lay eggs, sit on them for about an hour and then be done with the egg. As of tonight, my husband went out to get eggs and here she's finally sitting on her egg. She screamed at him and attacked him when he tried to see what was under her. Every chicken is different. Some hens will become broody while others will not be broody.

 

[Bunnylady]

I've had a few Silkies that as best I can remember never went broody, but they were lower-ranking birds in a flock with some determined dominant hens that would start screaming possessively any time 3 eggs wound up being laid between the times that I collected eggs. Silkies generally go broody very easily, but I believe it is at least necessary that they start laying first!

At the other end of the spectrum, I have seen a couple Silkies that were almost perpetual broodies. One that I have now went broody back in late Winter/early Spring, and continued to sit on nothing even though she was in a wire-bottomed rabbit cage. I finally gave her a couple of eggs to hatch, and the one chick that hatched has been her inspiration to get up and get on with life (I was beginning to think there was something wrong with her legs rather than her head!).

Good luck with your girl. Once she starts laying, you might try a couple of golf balls or fake eggs to see if you can inspire her to set for you - it usually doesn't take much!

 

[SSTupperware]

I know there all diferent, but was just wondering...