Checking in with a couple of updates from my little farm aka my backyard.
Yipee!!! My first Silkie hen (or hen of any kind for that matter) who laid her first egg on the 7th has gone broody with 12 eggs in her nest!
I'm relatively confident the eggs are fertile. I cracked her 1st two eggs - one was definitely fertile, the other I wasn't sure about. The roo is black and hen is blue. Both are from Bobbi Porto so the chicks should be gorgeous if everything goes well and they hatch. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Next is more of a question about the coop Stormey is in. It is a predominantly open pen with 1/2" hard cloth floor and walls. There are a couple of paneled areas to protect against weather and wind. The pen sits 4" above a raised wood deck and her nesting box is a milk crate with hay in it. All-in-all, everything is open or has holes - the milk crate on hard cloth raised above a raised deck. I'm worried about her being able to keep the eggs as warm as she needs to with no solid surface underneath. Should I slip something under the crate/nest to help hold the heat?
