Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Broody question:
when Pippin was brooding on a shop egg (around 9 weeks ago), she had food\water bowls in the coop, I still took her outside twice a day to make sure she ate. But it was a shop egg, I knew it wouldn't hatch.
Now, Pippin has her food\water bowls, should I still take her out? I am worried if I do, it breaks her broodiness, I don't want her to give up on her fertile ones! I wasn't so worried about it last time (because it wouldn't hatch anyway). What do you guys think? Any other broody tips?

Wow she's been broody sitting for 9 weeks already? Then now another 3 weeks with these new eggs. 3 months of being broody is a long time! Sorry but I wouldn't allow her to be broody that long as it does take a toll on their health sitting all day and night (apart from a quick break for a tiny nibble and dust bath) They usually loose weight and depreciate in health... I hope your Pippin will be ok though, do you have an incubator as a backup? And brooder setup if she rejects the chick/chicks?

I would take away the supermarket egg as it could go rotten and explode under her, messy!

Leave food and water for her nearby. She will get up herself to eat and drink.. often it's only once a day as they only eat/drink very little. If you do notice her not getting up then you can get her up yourself, sometimes they go a few day without getting up.

Honestly if I knew before Pippin was broody that long I would have suggested to break her and not get the fertile eggs.. leave it till next time so she can take recover and be in top health again.
I have had 2 hens die after raising chicks, its like they expended all their energy on brooding and raising the chicks then went down in health fast, died from unknown causes

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Too early to tell and you can not really go by comb this young. My Akira had a HUGE and WIDE comb at this age, but is still a pullet. Easter looks partridge in coloring, so if s(he) starts to develop red over the wings and black on the breast then you will know. Beautiful chick

Thanks! .. better not have red leakage or I'll want to keep it if it's a boy!
I'll give s/he a few more weeks and watch for development

 

[Emily26]

Awww she sounds adorable
Sorry I can't be of any help about the feathers - my silkies are now 4 weeks old and I don't have any experience how they look or should look with 6 weeks.
I would love to see pictures from your little girl!

Here's my 6 week silkie but she doesn't really look like pics of other 6 week silkies, she looks like just a big baby baby late getting her feather in, what's does everyone else reckon?

 

[Emily26]

I tried to already post pics of my big baby silkie but not sure it worked so sorry if repeating... This is Dolly the 6 week silky, to me she doesn't look like other silkies her age, she seems to still be mainly baby floof, what does everyone reckon?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Wow she's been broody sitting for 9 weeks already? Then now another 3 weeks with these new eggs. 3 months of being broody is a long

Sorry if i didn't explain correctly, she was broody 9wks ago with the shop egg. After 21 days she stopped after it didn't hatch.
9 weeks later she went broody again and we gave her the eggs

 

[PippinTheChicken]

She is fine, she had a 9 week break from broodiness

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I took pippin out for fresh air; she ate some food and did a ENORMOUS STINKY poop!!! She went back in after

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Broody Pippin

can anyone identify her eggs?
The one with the line and red stamp is a Supermarket Blacktail egg so don't identify that one!

 

[Chickeria]

Here's my 6 week silkie but she doesn't really look like pics of other 6 week silkies, she looks like just a big baby baby late getting her feather in, what's does everyone else reckon?

What a sweetie! Dolly is adorable
...What I can say is she definitely does have more fluff/feathers than my close to 5 weeks old babies (especially her crest).

 

[Chickeria]

View attachment 2652520Broody PippinView attachment 2652521can anyone identify her eggs?
The one with the line and red stamp is a Supermarket Blacktail egg so don't identify that one!

The eBay seller said it was a silkie hybrid with either RIR, cream leg, copper maran or light sussex

Sweet Pippin on duty

You wrote the eggs are from Silkie-cross hens or did I understand wrong and they are from hens of the breeds you named crossed with a Silkie purebred rooster?
I know a Copper Marans hen, Mathilda, her eggs are not extremely dark red so I wouldn't rule out CM involved regarding the darker brown egg. But sure could be RIR otherwise.
Some of my friend's crosses with blue egg-genes involved are laying (nearly) white eggs - so I think it's difficult about the light egg - could be with Cream legbar heritage or could be Light Sussex. ...Both eggs are difficult to assign in my opinion.