For the last few days Storm had become more vocal and had been looking in the nest boxes. I felt sure she was getting ready to lay again. It’s been three weeks since she last laid before briefly going broody.
Yesterday she was scratching around in each of the two nest boxes before settling in one of them. Meanwhile gold was in the corner of the chicken shed and Sugar settled in the other nest box.
A little later Storm came out giving the egg shout. This was followed by Gold and then Sugar. All three girls laid in quick succession. Dot had laid the previous two days so it was her turn to miss a day. Storm’s egg is quite big for her small size and Sugar’s egg is the typical round shape that seramas seem to lay.
Diamond has two more days of her double dose of flubenvet to go. After the first day we switched to giving her the full dose once a day as it is less stressful for her to be picked up once instead of twice.
This morning there were gape worms in her poop so the flubenvet is working. She is still eating very little though. She will only eat a small amount of her favourite things. She will peck at apple, eat a few spinach leaves and eat a few sunflower hearts and a bit of corn. It seems like she is eating just enough to get by but I hope if we can clear the gape worm she will start eating normally again.
We are not out of the woods yet and only time will tell if we can get Diamond through this. We can only keep doing what are doing and hope for the best.
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Great news on the egg front. Fingers crossed for Diamond.
Four girls laying now which is enough to keep us going in eggs. I am up and down about Diamond but as you say fingers crossed.
We are all rooting for Diamond! xx
Thank you. I just don’t know how this is going to go but I am still hoping for her to get through this too xx
Good to have all thoes eggs.
It is lovely having enough eggs now to keep us going.