Gooood morning Team Broody
Aaaw at Puffball TGG; looking forward to the pictures and also, like Liz, fingers crossed for more bubbies. Puffball sounds like an adventurous little soul; might need naming after a superhero? Lol
Still no eggs Liz! Gees that’s rough. I can picture it now, you give them the remaining eggs and they proceed to try and hatch them .. broody here we come! Lol
Lolz Pooman, NO! no eggs! I agree with TGG “this is exhausting”. I don’t know about the featheries but the humans need to return to some degree of normality for a while. Well, as close to normal as living with chickens will allow!
Yikes Pooman, you are having a bit of a bad run at the moment! I hope Rocky is OK and it is nothing serious. Good luck with the little wry neck munchkin also. On a lighter note, you can be our go-to person with emergencies; you are becoming very experienced in that department.
Seriously, hang in there, normality is hopefully just around the corner.
Goliath sounds like a real sweetheart .. ‘Goliath’ was maybe a bit off in the name department lol
Welcome jak2002003, lovely to meet you and welcome to Team Broody!
Congratulations on the successful hatch and again, agreeing with Liz, another successful co-parenting story. I still remember reading a thread that adamantly stated that co-broodies would not work and they would kill each others chicks .. hhhm, bzzzt, wrong! Lol
Sure sounds like they have worked it out and know what they are doing. A bit of tag-team parenting will give them all a chance for some down time.
A bit of an update on Cilla and her going broody again. Basically, Cilla and Dusty are crazy! Lol. As mentioned previously, I resorted to taking the nest box away after Cilla did not want to leave it except to bash Dusty! Gave it back to Dusty for a quick egg lay and then took it away again. The pair of them spent the afternoon fighting over the corner that the nest box used to be in. When they were not fighting over the corner, Cilla was stalking Dusty all over the garden; hunting her down to bash her. Lots of squawking, puffing up and pecking. Dusty was walking around like a blown up beach ball on legs! Bubbies, while safe in their run, are freaking out at all the commotion and I am getting a headache from breaking up fights and trying to work out what is the best thing to do; separation, ice baths etc. 5 o’clock last night, Cilla lays an egg in the nest box-less corner and Dusty proceeds to steel it and sit on it; furiously guarding it from Cilla and me! I finally get the egg away from them and because it is getting close to bed time and Dusty likes to sleep in the nest box, I put it back. It is not bed time yet but Dusty snuggles into it and commences broody-chicken impersonations. Cilla has now decided to go for a wander around the garden like nothing happened! After ½ an hour in the nest box, Dusty is wandering around the garden with Cilla, best buds again! This morning I gave them breakfast and as they seemed to be playing nice, opened the run for all to share. When I came in to type this, all four were quite happily scratching through the lawn clippings I threw in there yesterday like nothing had happened! Crazy Chickens!! lol
