Kendra's Gone Broody... Yet Again

Our broody hen we gave chicks to earlier this summer has decided to go broody yet again. I’m not giving in to her demands.

It seems that our perfect mother hen wants to be a mother again. The chicks we got back in June are growing so much, one of them, Harmony the Cuckoo Maran, is practically the same size as Kendra right now. The other two still look like chicks, just that White Witch Willow the Rhode Island Red is tall and skinny while Joyce the Speckled Sussex is short and plump with huge breasts.

I have a feeling before too long it’ll be the cage for Kendra, this time without the bottom tray so that air will flow under it through the mesh. I don’t know if we should put her inside the hen house like we did while she was brooding the chicks or just set it outside in the run where there will be a breeze. But one way or another, we’ll break her this time, as she doesn’t seem as intent as she did this spring. Still, it’s annoying.