I totally agree. Someone "said" they are coming to pick up both of my roosters today. Where in So. Cal. are you located? Yeah, I read that brodies make it easier than collecting brooder boxes, incubators and all that extra work. I like letting nature do the work and chicken math can rapidly become overwhelming...Gosh that is tempting, But I don't have a lot of space to keep a lot of chickens. My girls have never met a roo, though there are a couple in the neighborhood that they can hear. I don't want to raise chicks myself again and have said if we do chicks again I need a broody. Only one of my girls has tried going broody 2 separate times, I just locked her out of the coop and run until she settled down and snapped out of it. I was just thinking of paying a little extra for a couple of young pullets from Russell so I could avoid all the chick nonsense in our little house. One day, when we can relocate to a piece of land, then we will do the roo thing, but not now. Thank you.