Guess who’s broody?
For a week now, Izzy has been sitting on a beautiful nest. With the exception of a few minutes each day when she gets up to take care of things, she refuses to budge.
She has plenty to say when we enter her stall to remove her daily egg:
We’re not ready for ducklings yet, so we’re letting her sit, but not letting her keep her eggs:
She does, however, have a fake wooden egg that she’s taking very good care of:
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broody
1510s, “apt to breed,” from brood (q.v.). Figuratively, of persons, from 1851. Also, in modern use, sometimes “full of maternal yearning.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Morning Bray Farm 
May 16, 2012 at 4:50 am
I feel kinda sorry for Izzy. She wants a baby! …and ain’ nothin’ gonna come out of a wooden egg…
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May 16, 2012 at 6:47 am
Oh, poor beautiful Izzy. 🙂 I’ll bet she gives one heck of a pinch—does Don have any hair left on that arm?
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May 16, 2012 at 7:48 am
Are you going to let her raise some ducklings this year? Looks like she’d be a good mama.
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May 16, 2012 at 8:53 am
Izzy is such a goodie. No baby ducks for awhile huh.
While reading the post to the grands this morning at breakfast, I think Ry finally got why he shouldn’t play with the fake egg. He said, “Ohhhhhhh, I see, it’s like a pacifier for a baby, you can’t take those from them either, or else they’ll cry. I don’t want to see Izzy cry. That would be bad for everyone.” Hey not bad for inside, outside, upside down thinker, huh!!!!! So in that vein of logic, the wooden egg is Izzy’s paci, nummer, binky, anti cry device.
xoxo Oma Linda
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May 16, 2012 at 11:12 am
Izzy is definitely good Mommy material, when the time does come around. She’s doing a very good job of defending her wooden egg.
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May 16, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Poor Izzy….how can you fake her out like that????? Little ducklings are sooo…cute.
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May 17, 2012 at 11:59 am
I love the ducks. They are so beautiful. Izzy is a good mom and will be later too.
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May 18, 2012 at 1:49 am
Oh Justina….. thats a dilemma….
Izzy would be a good mom. She so brave fighting for her egg. She gives bruises to the egg thiefs 🙂
Liebe Grüße,
Pia
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May 18, 2012 at 4:52 am
I’m with Izzy…if her biological clock says ducklings I’d let her try raising a couple. Or three or four… or five or six… or…
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May 18, 2012 at 11:24 am
OOOhhh, go on, let Izzy be a mum!
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May 19, 2012 at 9:07 am
I guess her relationship with Oliver has her thinking about a family of her own! 🙂
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May 25, 2012 at 5:41 am
Thinking about you all, and hoping all is well.
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May 26, 2012 at 5:29 pm
i wonder how long she’ll sit on it. do they have little internal calendars that tell them time is up?
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May 29, 2012 at 7:34 am
Wow! She looks so lovely sitting on her confortable nest!
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