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[mandycapel]

Hello, we are new members from Wiltshire and looking for advice on our broody Silkie Ginger ( who is very bossy and can be aggressive to the others, so hoping this chills her out) who we have just let sit on 4 eggs( we have a cockeral) in the raised nest box. So do we leave her there till hatched then move them all into a separate space within the run, could bring the summer house down and turn right side of run into a separate brooder/ jail/infirmary, would she need access to a dust bath?. As the nest box is raised and she's in the first one by the door it's not practice to put a ramp in for the chicks or could move them to the floor of the coop, our cockeral is a diddy Gold Dutch bantam cross. We have another Silkie, a sablepoot and a pekin buff. Many thanks Mandy

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi Mandy and welcome to BYC. These links may be helpful -
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/4...ody-hen-hatch-a-long-and-informational-thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/496101/broody-hen-thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/guide-to-letting-broody-hens-hatch-and-raise-chicks

 

[mandycapel]

Hi Mandy and welcome to BYC. These links may be helpful -
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/4...ody-hen-hatch-a-long-and-informational-thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/496101/broody-hen-thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/guide-to-letting-broody-hens-hatch-and-raise-chicks

Thank you, will look at the threads

 

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC ! Good luck with your birds .

 

[mandycapel]

Welcome to BYC ! Good luck with your birds .

Thank you

 

[mandycapel]

Thank you

She's been off the eggs since the door opened at 7am is that bad? Or can she be off them for awhile?

 

[mandycapel]

Thank you, will look at the threads

Day 2 She's been off the eggs since the door opened at 7am is that bad? Or can she be off them for awhile?

 

[DobieLover]

Hello, Mandy, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Personally, I'd take the eggs. She should to be grafted to a ground nest before being given the eggs. Broody hens will get off the nest daily to have a great poop, eat, drink stretch and maybe take a dust bath. How long they are off the nest often depends on the ambient air temperature.
What was her behavior when you felt she was broody? Was she ALWAY on that nest, day AND night?

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC! I agree with DobieLover 's advice. As for "chilling her out" probably not. She will be busy with her chicks for a while (so less bossy to her flock mates) but her personality is likely to remain the same. Best of luck!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Mandy, and welcome to BYC. Hopefully she has returned to her eggs.