Partridge Silkies - Nothing else

[pennie1]

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Do you work for Cotchi?

 

[geosheets]

Brody's Broodello :

You could do a theme, like all her kids names start with R ie Rhonda, Rhianna, Rita.

All my Partridge hens get an A name but it is a male version, since the first to hatch out Brody named Alvin, but turned out to be a girl, so we kept up the tradition. We have Alvin, Arthur, Andy etc.

I was just going to post the same suggestion... except I was thinking 'Rocquelle'​

 

[Cetawin]

Penne Lmao nope retired, now I just play with my chickens, ducks and horse. Hehehe

 

[pennie1]

You're quite the jokester aren't you?

 

[pennie1]

Okay everyone... I am very disappointed. One of the eggs that my broody partridge hen was sitting on hatched and the hen suffocated it. It was a perfect baby and I had heard it peeping like crazy and then nothing for hours. So I gently reached under her and pulled out the baby and it was squashed. There was nothing wrong with it other than it looked like she squashed it. I'm sad, but at this point I have so many chicks it's no big deal. But I wonder why she did it. My other SUPPOSED broody is really being difficult. If you put eggs under her she sets on them for a while and then gets off and goes and hunkers down somewhere else. I'm ready to strangle both of them. They aren't CUTE anymore.

I hate to say it, but I have a few "f" bombs for both of them!!!

 

[NewToFarming]

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Sorry about your baby! I don't believe I ever had a mom do that but it has happened when another hen crawled into the nest with her. Do you think that might have happened? It actually just happened to me yesterday and I caught the other hen in there with her. So I moved mom and babies into the crate so this other crazy hen couldn't try to crawl in with her again.

I know the broodies stop being cute after awhile don't they!!! They actually become quite exhausting!!!

Maybe put her in a cage for a day or 2 to see if it gives her the idea to sit in one spot??? I have 2 that look exactly alike but one is slightly bigger that I have to carry them and their eggs outside to their playpen with them every day!!! Otherwise they run back and forth from the coop to the pen like a bunch of crazy silkies!!!

 

[pennie1]

Both hens are in separate small cages that I kept just for broodies or "bad boys". Well the one is in with her life long mate. He doesn't bother anything and just stands guard over her. It breaks my heart because he would be one of those that would babysit. He loves everybody and everything. He never fights with the other boys when they are out together. In fact, last winter I had the 3 boys that were about the same age in together and I caught the other 2 using him as a GIRL - if you know what I mean.

Maybe I'll just give him some of his own babies to raise. The only problem is that if he is not with Jazz he starts pulling his feathers out. Totally devoted to her. If I separate them they stand by the fence and he reaches through the fence to touch her. It's truly a love story.

 

[NewToFarming]

Oh gosh! No you can not separate them and the boys that "help" are very special and you want to let him be with her. I have a couple that are great with the babies and help the moms and others that couldn't care a less about them. No, they need to be together by the sounds of it!!! He will be right there with her when she is ready to take them off of the nest!!!

 

[pennie1]

Oh, I have definitely given up on separating them. But I have also noticed that even the breeding roos (1 is nice and the other is that devil bird) are very cool with little chicks that manage to get into their pen. They don't bother them at all.

 

[NewToFarming]

None of my guys bother the chicks either but some help to take care of them much better than others!

OMG! I have so many chicks hatching with different broodies from today and yesterday with more to come!