Broody Silkie with No Eggs Under Her!

[chickens4jojo]

Cottonball, my sweet little white silkie, just started laying eggs a few weeks ago. Now she will not get up off of the nest, "growls" at us, and seems so determined to hatch a patch of straw in the nest box as there are no eggs under her at all.

Will she sit there forever if I do not buy her some inexpensive fertile eggs so that she will eventually hatch some & then start to lay her own eggs again? Or will she find out soon that nothing is there?

Thanks so much for any advice you may have for me!

 

[apbgv]

Silkies will sit until they feel like they are done, at least my girls are that way, Lily is the worst I thing total all summer she has been off a nest maybe a month or so. she will sit for 3 wks, off for a week or so then back on. I gather eggs daily. I will not have anymore silkies. I have 4 at present.

 

[birdlover]

Some of my silkies would sit until I broke down and put a couple of chicks under them (after 2 months) but I also had one that got up on day 21 everytime and go about a month and then get broody again. They will try to hatch air!!!

 

[chickens4jojo]

Silkies certainly are interesting.

Thanks for your replies~~now I know that my silkie isn't too unusual at all as I am so new to the "Silkie World."

I just hope she remembers to get up and eat & drink, etc!