She teases me from time to time, then snaps out of it without even spending the night on a nest. She's been screaming and puffing out like a demented beachball with feathers on and off for weeks now and I'd about decided she's just weird. Well, yesterday, she did lay an egg, but stayed on the nest for the entire day and all night. Today, I gathered three BR eggs from three different hens who should still be fertile by Hawkeye (miss you, Big Guy) and traded hers for those three. Tonight, after dark, we moved her to the broody pen, which is inside the other coop, where I had a nest, food and water all ready for her. At last, a broody! Olivia and her two sisters, Kate and Tux, are the PoufyHead sisters, almost identical. They have broody in their blood, for goodness sake! Their sire was a standard Cochin/Silkie cross and their mother (or mothers) was a Barred Rock hen from helmstead's flock. Now, if Sunny goes broody right now, not sure what to do! Here's my sweet Livvie:
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