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Wow .. where to even start! OK, at what I think is the beginning …. Saturday evening Blondie decided that she was going to be broody; yep, good plan, apparently 5 days without a broody is sufficient for me
Saturday night she spent sleeping on the timber panel which has blocked off the nest box.
Sunday morning, however, she was showing no interest in the nest boxes whatsoever and spent Sunday in the garden with her flock mates.
This morning, she was out having breakfast and spent the majority of the day in the run. By the afternoon though, she had plonked her blowfish impersonating self on an egg and was not budging. So I booted her out and blocked off the nest boxes. For the past three hours she has tried to pancake on the nest box cover.
KiKi who I think is semi broody, cos apparently one is not enough and I need another one, was parked on the roost and every time Blondie tried to pancake, KiKi dropped down, beat her up and chased her out. Then back up onto the roost for a repeat performance when Blondie came back, wings out, blowfishing and tooking up a storm.
Closer to bed time, Crystal, who uses the nest box cover as a launch pad onto the roost could not go to bed because Blondie was on the cover and when she eventually managed to get up to the roost, a semi-broody KiKi beat her up and pushed her off.
While all this was going on, Dusty kept rushing in to try and break up the squabbles as this is what she does in her role as rooster!
So, basically, I have Blondie strutting around doing her ‘I wanna be a mumma’ impersonations; KiKi strutting around doing her ‘Not on my watch Sunshine’ performance and Dusty strutting around doing her ‘If you two do not pack it in, I am going to knock your chicken heads together … Do Not make me have to split you two up!’
Poor ole bottom of the pecking order Crystal and moulting LuLu are walking around bug eyed and tippy toed trying hard to keep out of everyone’s way and Cilla is being typical Cilla ‘Squabbles? What squabbles? No squabbles in my bubble’
Thank you Fizzybelle ..... that is a special comment for me, as I lost little Moppitt 2+ years ago, after she developed pneumonia from being in a coop that I did NOT know leaked ( during a fierce overnight storm we had here - which I was unaware of, as I sleep heavily ).
Oh such lovely ladies and a gent. I hope you don't mind me commenting as i used to breed cochins a while ago and still have one lady left. Cochins don't have pea combs. It could be a throw back somewhere but they look more like brahmas to me. I used to breed them too. Either way they are still lovely.
Good morning Friends
Chicken-clucky your new additions are beautiful! Well done!
Thanks everyone; I am pleased you got a chuckle. I am not really complaining about my broody’s, I love them to bits. Having said that, I did fleetingly consider a Post Christmas Broody Sale on Gumtree It is fun to comic it up a bit and share with my friends.
So, the drama continues this morning and yes Anniebee they do “start each other OFF”.
On our last episode we left you with a possibly broody KiKi, a definitely broody Blondie, a gender confused Dusty and a ‘in her own little world’ Cilla.
Well, this morning, Cilla broke out of the bubble to attack Blondie. I am not sure if Blondie’s walking around with wings out, took tooking is being interpreted as an attempt at domination and rise up the ranks or a sign of weakness but Cilla was not having any of it and even after Blondie managed to wriggle out from under Cilla’s grasp and onto the outside roost, Cilla was jumping up and down, trying to part Blondie from some toes.
When Blondie did jump down, Cilla zeroed in and attacked again, Dusty raced over [in rooster mode] to break up the fight and pecked at Cilla and at that exact second also realised ‘Oooops, that is Cilla!’ You could see it written all over her face; big mistake. Cilla promptly put Dusty in her place.
So, at the moment, we have Blondie in the broody breaker, more for her own protection than anything else and KiKi in the nest box being given the benefit of the doubt, if no egg by this afternoon, she will be confirmed broody.
I put Blondie’s food containers in the middle of the cage so as not to tempt Crows and Doves etc to try and eat it through the bars. Three times now, while typing this, I have heard Blondie ‘appeal’ to which I raced out … first time, a Crow was trying to reach in through the bars to the middle and steal her food … second and third time, two Crows! I chase them off; they keep coming back.
I might have to take a sicky so I can sit outside and keep the Crows away from poor ole Blondie who has gone from being picked on by her flock mates to being badgered by Crows!
Have I mentioned I HATE CROWS!! lol