My little Thumbelina is brooding.  She does this often enough to make me sad because , well, I don't have a rooster.  That's Chickens 101... A hen needs a rooster to make a chick.  So, when the conversation turned to incubaters and fertalized eggs in the teacher's lounge, my friend and I "hatched " a plan!!

She actually was the lady who gave me Thumbelina 4 years ago so we are already 2 birds of a feather.  (Sorry.  Couldn't help that ).  We curiously hypothesized what might happen if I sneakily placed one of these eggs in her nest!!  Well, yesterday it happened and she is very happily snuggled in her nest cooing away.  It's possible that the egg isn't fertalized but I like the hopefulness of my little Thumbelina as a mother.

How perfectly timed.  My little chicks are now 18 and 20; so this mother hen is very excited to think there might be a little baby chick running around my yard again!   Happy Mother's Day!!!