Contest Winners!

The winning name is:

liveandlaughmoms

And, by reason of no particular reason, we have two winners!!

**Five** (I think she’s actually sister ‘1’)

and

**Leslie**

You will both be receiving your prizes soon. (Five, email me your address so I can mail yours: maren@sahmsisters.com um, Leslie, you’d better email me your address too, I keep losing it.)

The prize includes: One fabulous mug with our new logo on it, and an Amazon gift card.

You’re welcome:)

Yahoo! Thanks for entering, the new name will be up soon and with hopefully little to no confusion, messiness, or disasters.

In the meantime,  we have a little problem over here. One of the chickens has decided she wants to be a mommy chicken come heck or high water. Despite the glaring facts:

1)no eggs under her

2)no rooster for miles

she has decided she is ‘broody’ which means that she is incubating and trying hatch baby chicks. Dumb. We have taken her eggs and keep tossing her feathered butt out of the coop, to no avail. Now, we have taken to the internet, foraging fowl forums for advice. This is, apparently, a common difficulty. Go figure.

The suggestions so far include dog kennels, buckets of water, ice packs and wire cages. Not to be used all at once.

I feel sort of sorry for her. I mean, if I couldnt’ have been a mommy, I would be way depressed. On the other hand, she’s too young for motherhood, I mean, the chicken in question is only 7 months old! Sheesh! She doesn’t even know roosters exist yet! She lives in a hen commune with 5 other chicks. Which makes you wonder exactly what those girls are talking, er, clucking about late into the night, alone in the coop….:)

I guess they can’t stay babies for ever, and you can’t overcome hormones.

Sigh, if only a bucket of water and an ice pack would slow down the teenage girl hormones around here.

On the other hand…:)