She hatched the 2 chicks out herself but then one fell out the nest so she left the remaining fertile eggs. The rest of the eggs I had which were fertile the mothers ditched them about 2 weeks into being broody. It has been terrible so far considering when I eventually got some to hatch they turned out bad! Also I had a Welsummer who was desperate to be a mother, she sat for 8 weeks and then when a chick was on day 20 a hen went in her nest and crushed the egg and it was the only one fertile!
Welsummer's are not know for going broody but I did have one who went broody twice
No doubt! That is terrible luck! Not that I am any expert....But I think I would wait for the welsummer to go broody again and seperate her and give her the eggs you want hatched. I had to seperate mine as my wyandottes were going in and pecking her on her comb until she left the nest. My broody has been much more happy being seperated and having privacy.
She died
, The only broody I have left is my BO who managed to hatch the two last year but I kind of blame her for their behaviour but maybe I shouldn't. I will use her to hatch again but I don't know weather to use my own eggs or not because people say aggression can be passed through genes but the dad of the aggressive cockerel was lovely.
Are you sure she's not just kicking out the duds and the other is taking them and sitting on them? Maybe one silky is broody and the other is just pretending? I would put the ones you find back under her if they aren't smelly or cracked. And I wouldn't worry about it.
The only other thing you could do is move them and confine them to a smaller nesting area, but that creates its own set of problems with potential for broken eggs and possible abandonment of the nest entirely. I'd just tuck and not worry.
