Do silkies stay broody after babies?

[clucky2]

My very broody silkie is raising her first adopted brood. Will this typically break a broody SILKIE? I know others pray for broodies. I want her eggs.
I should also mention, I'm keeping one of the babies. Only on the hope that it'll be a companion to her in our small flock of 7. The others are all standards, and she's at the bottom of the ORDER!

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

No taking care of the chicks will break the broody cycle. But she wont lay eggs either. At least my cochins don't. In face 2 of my hens are raising chicks and they are over 2 months old. The hens have just now begun to lay again. The last few days I have had to remove Doodle from the nest everytime I go into the coop as she is going broody again. I just pick her up and put her outside and she usually stays off the nest for awhile and I can get the eggs. I want the eggs not another broody lol

 

[squeakyballs]

They'll stop being broody, but they won't lay until the chicks are bigger. The chicks our silkies are raising are about 7 weeks old now, and the silkies just started laying again today.