Butterscotch is dropping feathers by the hand full but is still laying. She laid two days running then missed a day. Whenever she misses a day she always lays at first light the next day. Her next egg was still warm when I went in first thing in the morning. She must have come out of the chicken shed and into the little coop nest box as soon as the automatic door opened.
She then laid two more days and missed a day. We now had four bonus eggs from her so had two each for Sunday breakfast. It was a real treat to have our own lovely eggs again for breakfast after having to buy eggs.
The next morning I checked the little coops for an early morning egg and when I didn’t find one I assumed she had probably finished laying.
I then looked in the chicken shed and there was her egg under the roosting perch. She must have laid before the automatic door opened and her egg dropped to the floor and cracked.
Butterscotch’s egg
This girl is quite amazing. I scrambled her egg in a little olive oil and water and gave it back to the girls as a treat. Every egg is a bonus now and I am amazed that she continues to lay.
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What a hen! This is not the odd egg, but laying whilst also moulting. With one exception, all of my girls are anything but early layers – late morning, at best. The exception: Cotton, the silkie, who has often laid, if she has missed a day, by the time I let them out in the morning – never later than 7.30.
15 chicks hatched from 17 eggs – will email you ‘the story’ and some photos.
Butterscotch often used to lay at first light before she moulted, she is an early morning girl. I expect every egg to be her last and she continues to surprise me.
Wow, fifteen chicks! I look forward to the story and photos.
For a little while, my Speckles would hide the eggs right by the door, in the coop. She’d put straw in them sometimes, so I was hoping that nobody (aka the rooster) stepped on it before I get to it. ?
How funny, I have never had mine hide them.