Part of my plan to produce meat birds is to use Silkie broodies, with this in mind I incubated 6 eggs from ebay last September, 3 hatched
, one chick had a dodgy leg and had to be culled
, so two made it out of the brooder. One disappeared in the night
(the tom cat has shouldered the blame!) so then there was one. We've always been unsure about Bob's sex
, but today at exactly 23 weeks old Bob laid an egg
. I love it when a plan comes together!