For the last few days Topaz has been going into the nest box as if practising egg laying again. This is exactly the same procedure she went through weeks before laying the few eggs that she did.
Given that she has just come out of being broody and is now half way through moulting it seems very unlikely that she will start laying eggs just yet. Has anyone told her that though!
Topaz in the nest box
Topaz is looking scruffy
She has lost the feathers around her face
Does my tattered Topaz really think she is ready to lay eggs! It seems that while being so far, next to useless at egg laying, my princess still thinks she could lay an egg. I wonder if this girl is a bit deluded!
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I am not surprised the poor girl is confused.
Despite laying only five eggs in nearly six months (a record for poor egg laying?) Topaz always seems to think she can lay. Throughout this time she has practised. She goes in, sits a while, comes out and shouts a bit and I check and no egg. Perhaps she is just confused.
I an living in hope that after her moult (maybe in the spring) she will start laying and suddenly hit her stride.