The mother hen and the three chicks are anxious to get out of their safe night box in the morning. I try to get them started on feed as soon as they get out.. Especially since the younger of the two hens brooding in that same box tends to abandon the eggs for a bit every morning. I hope the immobile, veteran brooder "Plum" always as the same eggs under her but views of the eggs in the open don't have my hopes up too high... There's another hen in a back corner of the big night cage that just went broody. I'll put some fertlizied (spermed) eggs under her tomorrow.. That way I'll know to leave big brownish eggs for 21 days or so and keep taking the newer smaller whitish eggs added to her burden by the other Silkies... Eventually the situations will arise where I can partition off a broody hen and have her hatch a few Silky eggs from another population.. Or maybe LaBuBu the Silky chick is a rooster (probably, at the high temperature that hatched Seven the Turkey at the same time..) and will get along with Pear the old roooster and I can just assume LaBuBu is fertizing at least half the eggs.. We'll see...

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