Broody Silkie turned adoptive mother!

[WhoDatChick]

Okay yall.. my Silkie Nilky has been broody for quite sometime.. so yesterday while in TSC I picked up 4 Cochin bantams for her.. came home.. put them under her.. right at first she didn’t know what to make of it but she has seemed to “take them under her wing” .. they took to her right away! So now they are happy little babies..
My dilemma is.. she seems to stilll be in broody mode and not yet in mama mode.. they will come out to eat and drink and then she calls them back under and they go running! But she DOES NOT get up to eat or drink.. she just wants them under her.. I was also wondering if she can eat their medicated chick feed as I have them confined to the coop part of my mini prefab TSC coop... we just go a cold snap .. wouldn’t ya know it!
I have never done this before.. I use the dreaded red heat build for my others and I just hate how they are awake constantly and never resting .. so I am SO wanting this to be a success as it is natural! And also, because I think it just might be the most precious thing I’ve ever seen

 

[Brahmachicken240]

you say you got a cold snap, that may be why she’s not getting up.
She can eat the medicated starter feed no problem.

 

[WhoDatChick]

you say you got a cold snap, that may be why she’s not getting up.
She can eat the medicated starter feed no problem.

Okay, thanks!

 

[WhoDatChick]

The tiniest little one.. Nina.. doesn’t look like it’s doing too well.. I cleaned pasty butt.. it doesn’t want to eat much at all or drink.. I was dripping water on the side of it’s beak but it didn’t like that too much. All it does is go under mama..
A LOT of the chicks at TSC had pasty butt! But I picked the ones that did not..

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

The tiniest little one.. Nina.. doesn’t look like it’s doing too well.. I cleaned pasty butt.. it doesn’t want to eat much at all or drink.. I was dripping water on the side of it’s beak but it didn’t like that too much. All it does is go under mama..
A LOT of the chicks at TSC had pasty butt! But I picked the ones that did not..

Do you have a supplement like Nutri-Drench or Sav-A-Chick that you could try dropper-feeding? It might help perk her up. Best wishes - hope Nina is doing better soon!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I never use medicated feed and do not recommend it as if they aint sick do not treat so when they do get sick meds work

 

[WhoDatChick]

Do you have a supplement like Nutri-Drench or Sav-A-Chick that you could try dropper-feeding? It might help perk her up. Best wishes - hope Nina is doing better soon!

I do not.. I will get some and try.. and thank you

 

[WhoDatChick]

I never use medicated feed and do not recommend it as if they aint sick do not treat so when they do get sick meds work

It’s what the feed store was using so I just got the same for my now 4 week olds.. so I just am using it on these as it is what I have.. thanks though

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good luck I have 4 Silky I call them my aliens

 

[Erika Koehn]

My silkiest has gone bro