First broody hen

The white Silkie hen went broody today.  That was fast, 24 days after the first egg.This is great.  She must be feeling good and healthy and content, and it's a much more appropriate time of year to go broody than last year.IMGP0396She was way too ambitious, though, sitting on a pile of eggs she couldn't even cover, like nine of them.  They were spilling out all over, I took half of them away from her.I know she was broody because touching her provokes, along with a bunch of bird growling, this tail up, face in the straw pose.IMGP0397A position she holds after you stop touching her.IMGP0398Not broody, she'd pop right up and run outside.  Today, nothing was moving her.  I cleaned the coop around her and even packed new straw all around her.IMGP0399

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