Topaz was the first girl to start her moult after her broody spell. She is the first to get her red comb back and for the last few weeks she has been practising laying. She goes into a nest box, swirls around, sits for anything up to an hour then comes out shouting.<\/p>\n
Every time I check there is no egg. Topaz has always done a lot of practise laying. Peaches and Barley both laid an egg six days ago and none since. They have slowed down from every other day to an egg each once a week.<\/p>\n
On Sunday Topaz was in the right hand little coop but we didn’t hear her shouting as usual. When I checked the little coop there was an egg and it looked a little larger than Peaches or Barley’s egg but as we had eaten their eggs for breakfast that morning I didn’t have one to compare it with. I decided to wait until we got another egg before I jumped to conclusions.<\/p>\n
Today Topaz was in the right hand little coop again and this time she did come out shouting. There was another egg in the right hand little coop the same size as the one on Sunday. Hurrah, Topaz is laying again.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A shop bought medium sized egg on the left and Topaz’s two eggs on the right<\/p><\/div>\n
Maybe Topaz is going to lay properly this year. Well done Topaz!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topaz was the first girl to start her moult after her broody spell. She is the first to get her red comb back and for the last few weeks she has been practising laying. She goes into a nest box, … Continue reading