Ever use a silkie to hatch eggs?

[jimnjay]

People have been using Silkies to hatch anything in a shell for hundreds of years. If you have one go broody she will hatch your eggs. You can't always just put eggs under one and assume they will set. Once she is settled on the nest put eggs under her and she will hatch them.

 

[lurky]

I guess i just got a major easy to persuede bunch of silkies. I have 4 that lay an egg and sit on it til i take it. If i take it, they get up and move on. But if i did not.....they will stay right there. They had me thinking that ALL silkies were all this way

 

[tiki244]

A lot of people swear by the cochins also. I havent had any luck. I had one sit for about 1 1/2 weeks and then quit. But in the meantime she would take hour breaks and such so she didnt keep them warm enough anyway.

I was thinking about getting some silkies myself if I can find some for setting.

 

[tiki244]

Crazychicken what breeds are you getting???

 

[bossynbella]

Last year we had three silkies hatch out eggs. We only gave them5-8 bantam/silky eggs each and had a good hatch. We didn't get them all under them at the same time so when one or two would hatch and get all dry and fuzzy we would take them inside to our brood box that way they grew up friendly and thinking of us as their moms the hens didn't seem to notice anything. Once all the eggs hatched we would open the top to the cage and let her rejoin the rest of the flock usually by night she would realize she was free and when we would go out to lock them up she would be in the big coop. I have lots of pics but to lazy to upload them right now.

Good Luck!

 

[RedStickLA]

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Cochin's are known to be broody...That little cochin is sitting on BLRW eggs right now. She is a good little mama! She takes good care of her babies. She only hatched half of those babies. The other half I hatched in my bator. It was two orders of mixed Cochin eggs from eggbid. It was too many eggs for her to cover so I put half under her and half in my bator. I then gave her the babies from the bator to take care of once they all hatched.


I have a Silkie and a Dark Cornish Bantam that are sitting on eggs and today is day 21 "Hatch Day." So far I have seen one little head poking out from under the Silkie and two little heads poking out from the Cornish hen. It is so sweet to watch a mama hen with her babies.

Mitzi

 

[crazychickens]

I'm getting 8 silkies chicks st. run. I hope that, I get one that wants to be a mama!

 

[WriterofWords]

Steven's little Silkie cross Charlotte sits on anything, including the baby duck.

 

[trishok8]

I have 3 silkies and was wondering how old they should be before they are considered broody enought to hatch an egg.

 

[silkiechicken]

I have three silkie girls at the moment... one went broody one day... the next day her sister joined her... and now... I have a cochin mix sitting on top of the two silkies!!!

As long as the third silkie and other cochin mix doesn't join in, I will be happy.

As revenge... I may just give them Cornish x chicks to raise...

My broodies that are sitting are now 7 months old if I remember right. My best broody is a black sexlink and she did great as a mom at about 18 months old.