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I fear that you're correct. Adorable little gentlemen though.

I wish I could loan you Mocha, who has gone back to brooding after raising the babies she took over from Nugget.

That's sad. My large-fowl Cochin has never gone broody. About 1/3 of my Australorps do it, my homebrewed OE did it, and, of course, the Java I've mentioned before is a champion broody.

I feel you. There are four feathered pancakes in my boxes this morning. I can't break them fast enough with only one breaker.

I've got a plague of broodies again but don't want to have them sitting in this heat even if I weren't still trying to sell spring birds.

I wonder if she didn't like Gus or didn't want to be bred at all. It would be interesting to see how she deals with the males in the mixed flock.

Do you think that Zinnia's fertility issues are inherent to her or that she's not mating properly?

I'm inclined to think that a broody who defends her nest/chicks against me will defend them against anything else too. That is peculiar. I hope it turns out OK.

My broodies would draw blood if I tried that. I have to get a pinch of feathers on the back of the head to keep from getting bitten.

Pure, distilled adorable!

That's cute. Mocha has decided that the end-of-May chicks don't need her anymore, but Auntie is still hanging out with them and they are trying to sleep with her or with the current broody. (I need to break this one because I haven't managed to sell my excess yet).

Good luck with that. I have not yet had to deal with that and don't look forward to my first time.

Having the holiday extend the weekend has screwed me up completely.

That's really lovely.

:hugs

Poor thing. :(

Like the way that the white chicks hatched from my California Whites' eggs that turned out to be specked were male and paint were female -- until the last hatch where I have a paint male for the first time. In fact, for the first half-dozen, all the white chicks from those eggs were male and...

I haven't noticed this in the Australorps, but I'm not tracking individual birds intensely either. I have noticed that the "splashiness" changes with each set of feathers as they mature.

It's amazing that Mocha allows Auntie to share the babies. Nugget did most of the actual sitting, but she's much lower in the pecking order and never stood a chance.

The first day Mocha had the babies off the nest I walked nearby to put down an open waterer for them and she flew up at me like a small, mottled dragon.