Your thoughts re: next year she can find her own eggs seems reasonable then...and she can find homes for those chicks. You aren't involved on any way. Stick to those guns rather than be a softie.
Teddy's coloring is coming through. Fluffy is recessive white. Curly's chick may (more likely WILL) bend up being blue and frizzled. Fluffy's babies....Teddy clones?
@Ponypoor and any hatching from not silkie eggs from not black skinned hens will be Bert...and I THINK (not positive on it) pullets.......unless it's like barring and the hen has to have it and the roo not.... research time again.
Ok..@nicalandia knows a LOT about silkie breeding. If I'm...
Took Sherlock out for a run where we saw the trumpeter swans. He found a mud puddle...(and even laid down in it.
And in chicken news, they all gave me Friday picsBlanche
Havoc and Nimbus
Havoc, Shan, and Storm
:hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs You know certain hens will take the babies. (Henny Penny, Penelope). You also know how to raise babies with the flock (including mixing bantams in). Revisit the idea if/when the time comes down the road a ways. Right now keep an eye on Curly and the rest of your...
With the bantams snuggled inbetween the older girls, they're plenty warm, even on top of the heat panel. Your big chicks are feathered enough to not NEED it, but young enough to still WANT it. The bantams are fully accepted as part of the little group. Good job!
Once a broody has babies, THEY are her focus. THEY need food, she will get them to food and show them how to eat it. THEY need water, she will get them to it and show them how to access (like a nipple waterer). THEY need protection, she will turn into MAMA BEAR.
Let Sherlock out first thing this morning. Made coffee, let Castor in. Went out to join Sherlock. He'd poofed. While looking around, spooked fox from hay bales below. Lost him in the pasture (wasn't wearing my glasses yet).
Went for glasses, watched more for fox...he'd now poofed. Found...