She'll go broody when she's good and ready to, and not a moment sooner. If she hasn't been sitting on those eggs, they're not going to develop. You'd be best off removing them before they go bad and possibly burst.
It's possible. Or they got rolled out, broke, and the birds ate them. Rats and skunks have stolen eggs from my coop, too.
^This. And she will likely go broody at some point. My Silkies are pretty much perpetually broody.Hi there,
If she just started laying last week, she's not going to go broody soon, she's far too young. You really shouldn't let her if she does go broody soon, the eggs are likely too small for healthy chicks at this point and being broody is hard on chickens, she's not big enough to get through it well.
Broodiness is a matter of hormones, not a matter of eggs. Throw out the eggs in the nest, they're likely spoiled.
Try again in 4-5 months, if she's broody.
'Silkie' is synonymous with 'broody'! My australorps tag-teamed it one year, I can only think of a few occasions when I didn't have a growling black mass in the nest boxes.
They didnt roll out or break. It happened within like 2 hours tops
I think she is about 8 or 9 months oldHi there,
If she just started laying last week, she's not going to go broody soon, she's far too young. You really shouldn't let her if she does go broody soon, the eggs are likely too small for healthy chicks at this point and being broody is hard on chickens, she's not big enough to get through it well.
Broodiness is a matter of hormones, not a matter of eggs. Throw out the eggs in the nest, they're likely spoiled.
Try again in 4-5 months, if she's broody.
That's unusual, she should have been laying at 5-6 months old. Anyway, since she's just started laying, her hormones won't kick in to be broody for a while, but since she's older than I previously thought, you can let her sit on the eggs if she goes broody soon. (unless it's winter, not recommended.)
