First broody silkies and LOTS of questions

[FarmerVal]

My silkie just went broody a few days ago too. This is my first broody. I should have written down the exact date. She's sitting on some EE/ Black Silkie eggs. I'm sure these chicks will be very interesting if all goes well and they hatch. She keeps stealing all the eggs my EEs are laying, it's quite funny. I have to lift her up and take the new clean looking eggs away each day so I don't end up with too many funny looking chicks!

 

[flowerchicks]

I have a tiny silkie that went broody about a month ago. I gave her some eggs to sit on, but tossed them a couple weeks ago because they were rotten

I gave her 3 more, one was for sure developing, the other 2 were a few days behind, but I think they started developing (one is green and one is from a bc marans, so it's hard to tell). Today, I went out to check the eggs, and the one that I new was growing was gone

I have 3 chickens that kick Clover off the nest to lay their eggs, and one of them is an egg eater

Unfortunately, I am pretty sure it is my favorite chicken, my BR, Pebbles. Will my silkie stay on the eggs until something hatches or will she give up? I know she has been sitting longer than it would take to hatch. This is her first time going "real" broody (she had a practice run a few months ago, that lasted a couple weeks).

 

[Silkie Sue]

Silkies are die hard sitters but they will not sit indefinitely...
if she has been sitting on eggs that didn't hatch and you put fresh ones under there she might not stick it out...
i would give her a break and plug in the incubator

 

[Silkie Sue]

oh also,
can you put something around her so the other hens can't get in... that could also cause problems especially when the chicks hatch. the other hens will likely kill them

 

[flowerchicks]

She is my incubator

I wasnt necessarily wanting chicks, I just wanted her to have some babies. I let my silken cochin sit last summer and she hatched the rooster in my avatar. I don't want anymore roosters. If she did hatch chicks, I would separate them from the rest of the flock, like I did last time. I may just pull the eggs and wait for her to go brood again.