Bottom of the Brood

broody

adj broodier, broodiest

1. moody; meditative; introspective

2. wishing to sit on or hatch eggs (when hens "go broody" they will stop laying)

brood

v.intr.

1. To sit on or hatch eggs.

2. To hover envelopingly; loom.

3. a. To be deep in thought; meditate.

b. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry:

c. To be depressed.

Neil Young has been broody for quite some time. "Kids these days don't even know who I am," she frequently says to herself (as none of the other hens will talk to her or allow her to eat with them). "I made Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young what it was. Everybody knows that. Without me they would have been just a bunch of ordinary hens, a bunch of None Hit Wonders..."

A nearby hen let out a cluck of protest, but then quickly went back to ignoring the Ameraucana.

"Ok, ok," Neil Young continued, "CSN had two top 40 singles before I joined them and successful solo albums, but where are they now?" Neil looked glumly around the coop and decided not to continue with this train of thought.

She also refuses to lay eggs.

Neil Young

Hey there. I'm Neil Young (note my distinctive shaggy muttonchop sideburns). I'm a rock star and I lay pale blue eggs. I'm the only hen with a brown body and a black head, and my legs are bluish/gray. I might be an Ameraucana or some variety of Easter Egger, but I'm probably not a true Araucana. I may not be pure bred, but my falsetto tenor drives the groupies wild.