sticks

My broody hen thinks she's a stick-carrying delivery service

Oh, a hen who thinks she's a tiny, feathered delivery service for sticks, this is the kind of fowl play I can get behind. Your broody girl is clearly committed to the bit, even if her stick-stacking skills are a little... *un*successful. It's like she's trying to build a mobile nest on her back, which is both hilarious and oddly endearing. I've seen broody hens do all sorts of weird things when you kick them off the nest, puffing up, growling, giving you the stink eye, but the stick-on-back routine is a new one for me. It sounds like she's in that confused limbo between wanting to sit and having nowhere to go.