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Songster
Hi, I found this forum whilst googling for information on keeping Silkie chickens.
I live in Northwest Cumbria on the edge of the Lake District. We can get our share of rainfall here but we pretty much don’t get the extremes.
We have a small garden and so after years of listening to my OH badgering me, “Oh, chickens would be wonderful here” I caved in! As a young girl I’d seen a dog kill my dads chickens in the paddock so that kinda put me off for a while.
We were given 11 Silkie eggs and bought an incubator as a promised clocker didn’t materialise. The first chick hatched on the 28th June last year. A total of seven.....The Magnificent Seven! Or, as I used to say, ‘My Marauding Chickins!!!’ (Not misspelled)
I gave four cockerels back last week to the guy who’d given me the eggs so I’m left with my desired trio.
My question is,
Do I need to make a separate nesting box for my two girls?
I have a small coop with a nesting area off the main ‘room’ but as they’re not laying yet does that mean Penny and Amy need their own space?? OR, are they still a bit young to produce yet??
Thanks in advance
I live in Northwest Cumbria on the edge of the Lake District. We can get our share of rainfall here but we pretty much don’t get the extremes.
We have a small garden and so after years of listening to my OH badgering me, “Oh, chickens would be wonderful here” I caved in! As a young girl I’d seen a dog kill my dads chickens in the paddock so that kinda put me off for a while.
We were given 11 Silkie eggs and bought an incubator as a promised clocker didn’t materialise. The first chick hatched on the 28th June last year. A total of seven.....The Magnificent Seven! Or, as I used to say, ‘My Marauding Chickins!!!’ (Not misspelled)
I gave four cockerels back last week to the guy who’d given me the eggs so I’m left with my desired trio.
My question is,
Do I need to make a separate nesting box for my two girls?
I have a small coop with a nesting area off the main ‘room’ but as they’re not laying yet does that mean Penny and Amy need their own space?? OR, are they still a bit young to produce yet??
Thanks in advance
Like NFC has said, you can probably use 1 box for all of them. If you notice a lot of squabbling later on down the road, you can add another. But give 1 a try first. 
to have you join the family. Enjoy your time here at BYC! 
