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Brandysgirls
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- May 15, 2020
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I am keeping all of the chicks so far because this is my first year with them and a half egg layers but I had recently hatched some silkies and fell in love with them so now I'm doing nothing but silkies so my oldest silkies are 11 weeks old and then I have about a hundred silky eggs and my incubators lol!I just love silkies that's the reason I'm doing nothing but silkies but I can't wait until next year when they're big enough to go broody!!!!Hopefully some of your silkie hens will help out and go broody for you. That doesn't eliminate the issues with shipped eggs, but most hens do a much better job than an incubator- is there any reason you're not keeping some of the hatched chicks for breeding stock and using their eggs?