Rogue broody found! pictures "How could you Millie!"

[willkatdawson]

I can't wait to see what you end up with.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

My Milly (a Mille Fleur d'Uccle) is broody now too. Sadly, I don't think she's going to get to be a mommy this time, though. One of her two eggs hatched and I found the little chick DEAD in the nest box.

Fully dried out and fluffed up, but it looked like it had been mashed.

The other egg seems to be a dud. Anyway, your Millie is adorable, best wishes to her... can't wait to see her chicks!

 

[Lacey1988]

Quote:
Me either lol should be interesting

 

[ganesha09]

Looking forward to your hatch!

 

[NYC feather fam]

What a beautiful momma bird! mazel tov!

 

[Darlasmum]

She had a brilliant nest and you ruined it (in her mind)! No wonder youre getting talked to!

 

[Kaliki4]

I have two White Leghorn roosters that need a home. They are 5 weeks old. We are not zoned for roosters. Does anyone know of somewhere or someone that would like them? They are not for food!! I live in the east bay

 

[willkatdawson]

Millie decided she didn't want to be broody after all. This would have been her second hatch in three months, so I can't say as I blame her.
This is where Dottie enters the picture.

This is Dottie. Her mother is a buff orpington and her father's a barred rock.

She's pretty low in the pecking order, and even though the past two springs she has been broody, Millie beat her to it. And I wasn't sure how a subordinate hen would be as a mother.
Well there Dottie was, doing her broody thing in the nest-box. I picked her up and placed her in the brooding closet and you would have thought she had died and gone to Heaven. She shimmied down into place on top of her 3 eggs and hasn't missed a beat.

 

[Lacey1988]

heres my girl as u can see she doesn't like me by her eggs too much lol

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

Aww, your chickens are BEAUTIFUL. Can't wait to see what the babies look like.