Snow has now gone broody after laying seven eggs in ten days. They seem to be going broody faster and faster. Gold has come out of her broody spell but it will probably be a week before she comes back in to lay. We now have just Red laying but luckily she lays the biggest eggs.
We have never had only one girl laying in the middle of summer before. Roll on the new girls. Sebrights are not a broody breed, hurrah! and lay an average of 60 – 80 eggs a year. Dutch bantams do go broody but lay an average of 160 eggs per year!
That should bring the egg totals up. But of course every bird is different and we have had supposed good egg layers in the past that didn’t lay well. It will give us the possibility of more eggs though and that would be lovely. Plus in their first year they should lay through the winter so a few winter eggs could make up for the smaller number of summer eggs.
I can’t wait to have new girls!
Click here to see the history of my flock.
I hope you never reach the stage of no eggs due to broodiness! I have yet another brown leghorn broody and in jail tonight, keeping company with Chocolate, my pekin, who’s on her 5th night in the crate – I let her out this morning and she went straight back onto the nest. Enjoy Red’s eggs. 🙂
Me too, I would hate to have no eggs at all. I am glad I’m not alone. We will enjoy Red’s eggs.