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Wall of brooding clouds
Black and gray and so fierce
Led by a rainbow

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October 21, 2025

Color image of a full sunrise rainbow arching over Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, October 21, 2025. Image by FB user Bob DeVore shows downtown Akron, Ohio buildings located under the arch of the rainbow, the sun just rising behind the photographer as the storm clouds blew in from the west, behind the rainbow.

Custom in-coop broody area started and completed today. One of our hens has been sitting for three days, and needed a safe space to incubate her eggs without her sisters harassing her, and so here we are!

This feels like our most successful iteration of a brooding space, and has room for the chicks to grow out a bit in proximity to their future flock while still being safe. I hope this eliminates the future integration drama when they're approximately teenagers, but we'll see!

I'm actually thrilled she decided to go broody now, as weather is cooler, instead of in Spring. Generally, they tend to go broody too late in the Spring, and the last time a hen tried to incubate eggs a temp spike killed the developing chicks days before hatching. Cold temps should be much less dangerous, because the brooder is in an enclosed corner, we can add more straw for warmth should we get an early cold season, and the mama will do most of the work for the chicks.

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