Are Silkies Good Brooders

Silkies typically make awesome mother hens, and are great brooders.” With maternal instincts that extend even beyond species lines, silkies will hatch eggs laid by ducks, turkeys and pheasants; because of this tendency toward broodiness, silkies are not themselves prolific layers, producing fewer and smaller eggs than …

How do I get my Silkie hen to go broody?

You can encourage a Silkie to go broody by placing a couple of dummy eggs in her nest area, these can be unfertilised eggs or rubber dummy eggs which you can buy from any good pet store or poultry centre. Once you have noticed that your Silkie is broody you can then put fertilised eggs under her.

How do you break up a broody hen?

1. Removal.
2. Closing down the Nest Area.
3. Frozen Water Bottle and Cold Dips.
4. Remove all Nesting Material.
5. Stop Access to the Coop.
6. Send Them to Chicken Jail.
7. Give Her Fertile Eggs.