Is she ready to leave her chicks? advice please

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

Thank you all for the advice!

Nothing is ever easy with a chicken family is it? I always second-guess every decision I make. Sometimes I think no matter which way I go it won’t be right!

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Nothing is ever easy with a chicken family is it? I always second-guess every decision I make. Sometimes I think no matter which way I go it won’t be right!

Yeah. That su true.

 

[K0k0shka]

For next time, maybe it would be best to let a silkie hen hatch silkie chicks, and then raise them with the silkie flock, so you won't have to worry about separating them or integrating the babies on their own, or putting them with the mean flock. Silkies are very prone to brooding, so you'll probably get a broody out of them sooner or later.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

For next time, maybe it would be best to let a silkie hen hatch silkie chicks, and then raise them with the silkie flock, so you won't have to worry about separating them or integrating the babies on their own, or putting them with the mean flock. Silkies are very prone to brooding, so you'll probably get a broody out of them sooner or later.

Yeah. I would have liked that but I had been trying for ages to get my silkie to broody and she just would not. I've had her for more them two years and she has not brooded once. I'm a bit worried about putting the big chicken in with my little ones. But fingers crossed that it will go well.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

For next time, maybe it would be best to let a silkie hen hatch silkie chicks, and then raise them with the silkie flock, so you won't have to worry about separating them or integrating the babies on their own, or putting them with the mean flock. Silkies are very prone to brooding, so you'll probably get a broody out of them sooner or later.

I have not to clue why my big girls are mean to new chickens. Even more them my Silkies. I'm a bit worried that the chicks will get pecked but the Silkies don't peck to badly.

 

[K0k0shka]

I have not to clue why my big girls are mean to new chickens. Even more them my Silkies. I'm a bit worried that the chicks will get pecked but the Silkies don't peck to badly.

Breeds are different... personalities within a breed are different... Some things you can look up ahead of time and prepare, others you just have to find out by trial and error...

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Breeds are different... personalities within a breed are different... Some things you can look up ahead of time and prepare, others you just have to find out by trial and error...

Yeah. Other then that they are lovely girls.