Ginger has laid five eggs in eight days but she has been really elusive to catch in the nest box. It has never taken me this long to catch a girl in the nest box.
Ginger must be in and out really quickly for I haven’t, until now even seen her going in, coming out or even looking in a nest box. The give away has been the pine shavings thrown over the ramp.
Today I knew she was due to lay and Snow had already laid. I kept popping up to see if she was in the nest box. Once some shavings had been thrown over the ramp and Ginger was being quite vocal I knew that she was getting close to laying.
I decided to leave my camera in the chickens’ store cabinet and sit with a book on the top patio just outside the run. Ginger does not like being seen in the nest box. Every time Ginger disappeared I lifted the nest box to take a photo but she shot back out again. This happened three times before I finally snapped a photo of her in the nest box.
I came indoors to put the photo on the lap top then went back to see if she was still in the nest box. Ginger was back out in the run and her egg was in the nest box. She is a fast layer. Never has a girl been this tricky to catch in the nest box and even then I only got one photo and another of her tail disappearing down the ramp.
Finally I have a photo. Well done Ginger, on her fast egg laying skills.
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She seems very business-like – no fuss, just gets on with it.
Going on holiday tomorrow tor a week, so may miss some posts; will catch up on return. 🙂
She does get the job done quickly. Have a good holiday.