new egg, literally!

[chickenmadnessainmind]

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I agree! It just sounded like you were giving out!

In my experience silkies go broody with just leaving eggs!

I let my silkie lay her eggs until she was ready to sit on them.

She layed a total of 10 eggs then decided to sit! 21 DAYS later i have 8 silkie babies.

It all depends on what suits you! my silkie pair got the best of treatment and it natural for chickens to leave eggs to hatch out ain't it??
Birds in the wild dont have us to feed care for or leave eggs under them ?.

Just my 2 cents!

 

[Shayna]

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this was uncalled for. not a cool response. and i'm calling you out for it.

a) how do you know she hasn't done research? b) she's asking a question. this is a forum. if you don't want to help her without the snide remarks, then move on. please. c) you're telling her she needs a rooster. they need to mate. really? she said she bought a silkie pair. And, isn't it.....well, i'm stopping.

this is just horrible. i think you owe her an apology. we'll wait.

thanks and i hope you're having a great day.

x2 As a newbie, I thank you for that post. I've come here for help from knowledgeable people in regards to raising my first chickens. I have done a lot of research, and maybe the OP has too. I assume most people come here because they care about their chickens and want to do what's best for them, as I've done. That response to the OP kind of made me step back and think, wow - hopefully no one is assuming I'm an idiot for asking questions....
So anyway, thanks. I wish I could contribute more to the OP's question, but as a fellow newbie, I don't have much to add yet. But I'm learning!

 

[Gypsy07]

Oh dear. Perhaps CammieSilkie wasn't as tactful as s/he could have been, but I don't think s/he meant to be deliberately rude or anything. Maybe s/he just had a really bad day or something. Can we just put it down to a mistake and a miscommunication and let it rest at that please?

Birds in the wild lay a pile of eggs before they start sitting on them. They don't start sitting on just the first two or three eggs, cause then there would be eggs hatching at all different times. Broody birds in nestboxes will sit on nothing, cause usually nothing is what is left every day after we collect all the eggs for our own purposes! If we left them to get on with things themselves, they probably would keep laying till they felt like sitting, cause that is how they would do it in the wild. So I reckon there's evey chance that's exactly what your Silkie is going to do. Silkies are notorious for their broodiness, so she was probably plotting babies right from the very first egg...

 

[jlasuzi]

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this was uncalled for. not a cool response. and i'm calling you out for it.

a) how do you know she hasn't done research? b) she's asking a question. this is a forum. if you don't want to help her without the snide remarks, then move on. please. c) you're telling her she needs a rooster. they need to mate. really? she said she bought a silkie pair. And, isn't it.....well, i'm stopping.

this is just horrible. i think you owe her an apology. we'll wait.

thanks and i hope you're having a great day.

Thank you! I completely agree that her response was uncalled for. I found it very condesending and snide. I have done my research, I just couldn't find a response to what I was wanting to know in any of my books. I also have other chickens but they are all young and not of the laying age yet. People who can't respond to others with a kind word don't need to respond at all.