Lemon-Drop
Let Your Light Shine ~ Matthew 5:16 🤍✝️
My main question is: How do I know if she's fully accepted them?
Background:
About 2 months ago, I noticed my silkie, Pebbles, brooding on some eggs (we have a rooster, so they're fertile)
I decided to let her sit on them, but in the end, two hatched, but only Joy made it past the first few days (unfortunately, Hope, the other chick, got out in the cold rain.)
Pebbles has done great raising Joy, who is now about 3-4 weeks old.
I decided to hatch some more eggs for the Easter hatch-a-long. 6 hatched. They are now 5-7 days old.
About half an hour ago, I put Pebbles and Joy in the chick brooder. Neither the chicks, Pebbles, or Joy seemed to mind - no pecking, but none of them have started going underneath her or anything.
Joy seems neutral about the whole thing.
Would she/the chicks have accepted her by now? Is there still a chance she'll raise them?
Thanks in advance!
Background:
About 2 months ago, I noticed my silkie, Pebbles, brooding on some eggs (we have a rooster, so they're fertile)
I decided to let her sit on them, but in the end, two hatched, but only Joy made it past the first few days (unfortunately, Hope, the other chick, got out in the cold rain.)
Pebbles has done great raising Joy, who is now about 3-4 weeks old.
I decided to hatch some more eggs for the Easter hatch-a-long. 6 hatched. They are now 5-7 days old.
About half an hour ago, I put Pebbles and Joy in the chick brooder. Neither the chicks, Pebbles, or Joy seemed to mind - no pecking, but none of them have started going underneath her or anything.
Joy seems neutral about the whole thing.
Would she/the chicks have accepted her by now? Is there still a chance she'll raise them?
Thanks in advance!