MysticHedgeMama
Chirping
- Mar 16, 2021
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I have a satin Silkie hen who went broody. She’s super sweet and fluffy and I decided to go ahead and let her hatch some babies. I put a few of my other silkies eggs under her as well, but only one was fertilized and hatched. Chick is 2 weeks old. A few weeks before this chick hatched, I had a huge Sapphire Gem go broody as well. I tried to break her at first but then thought my single Silkie chick is going to need some friends so I stuck some eggs under her and called it a day. My thought process was I’d give baby over to my Satin Silkie momma and then my big hen could go back to laying eggs and being a part of the flock. Well I was majorly wrong. My Sapphire will not let the chick go and the Silkie hen will not take this new baby in either. She just chirps and chirps until the big hen comes and gets her. Another thing is the sapphire hen is acting crazy violent towards the older chick. When she sees the older chick and the satin Silkie walking around she abandons her baby to go and attack it. This is stressing me out and idk what to do at this point. Why won’t my Silkie hen take the new baby?