The Sullivan Six

[AinaWGSD]

13 days and one failed attempt to graft chicks later, and Artemis is finally no longer broody! We moved the broody buster into the run, hoping if she couldn't see her preferred nest it would help break her out of it. Put her on the roost overnight and she stayed out with the other girls all day!

 

[AinaWGSD]

5/5 eggs tonight!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Well, one of the malines cockerels in the garage brooder is starting to find his voice (still has nothing on Lady Amalthea volume-wise yet) and I was worried he would bother the neighbor who's house is right there. But she ran into me at work the other day and asked me "do you have chickens?" So I guess his rusty gate crows aren't bothering her!

The girls have done marvelously with this dang heat dome! Even last week, when they were panting and holding their wings away from their body at 9 o'clock at night, I've been getting 3-5 eggs a day!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Limu is broody...again

 

[DocChicken]

Limu looks so grumpy and defiant

 

[AinaWGSD]

Oh dear. 13yo put the chickens to bed for me last night about 10:30 and informed me that he had to pull Marcille off the nest

 

[AinaWGSD]

Seriously!? Into broody jail with both of you.

 

[RoseHawke]

It's enough to make one want to have leghorns, although I've heard that even the occasional leghorn will go broody.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Oh, for crying in the rain! Just went out to put the chickens to bed and had to pull Artemis off the nest!

 

[GreenJay]

Oh, for crying in the rain! Just went out to put the chickens to bed and had to pull Artemis off the nest!

Your girls are very determined! Maybe broodiness is contagious?