Vintage Easter Greeting Card with Rooster and Chicks, Victorian Era

There's an absolutely unhinged energy radiating from this black-and-white hen who has clearly decided that Easter is HER moment, wings dramatically fanned like she's mid-aria at the Met Opera, looming over five chicks—a chaotic mix of yellow and dark—who seem blissfully unaware that mama is one bad day away from a full breakdown. A nest of colored eggs in red, blue, and white sits nearby, apparently abandoned by the family in favor of whatever existential power walk this hen is currently on. The picket fence and cheerful yellow cottage in the background are doing their absolute best to project 'wholesome pastoral scene,' but they cannot compete with the main character energy of a hen who feathered up like she's attending her own coronation. Easter Greeting, indeed—nothing says springtime joy like poultry on the verge of complete psychological unraveling.