Snow is back in lay

Over the last few days I had felt Snow was getting ready to lay again. She was having a twirl around the nest boxes. She has moulted in two halves but has now stopped dropping feathers again. Her tail feathers are almost at their full length.

Yesterday it looked as if she was getting ready to lay. I decided to take a photo of her in the nest box and was surprised to find her next to Ginger’s third egg. Ginger had only laid the day before so has now laid three eggs in four days. Ginger is so quick to lay that I have yet to catch her in the nest box.

Later in the afternoon I checked again and Snow had laid in the corner of the chicken shed. Snow’s egg was it’s usual torpedo shape and until now Snow had laid our smallest eggs. Ginger now takes that spot of laying our smallest eggs.

Snow’s egg is on the left, the next three are Ginger’s eggs and a medium shop bought egg on the right for size comparison.

Snow laid her last egg on 5th October last year and she was the last girl to stop laying. I wasn’t expecting her to lay again this year as all the other girls have stopped laying about a month earlier than last year. But she has surprised us. Well done Ginger and Snow.