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<\/a>Peaches moves into the nest box with Toffee<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Toffee would like to be left in peace<\/p><\/div>\n
I decided to move Topaz out of the right coop to free up another nest box as Topaz isn’t laying at the moment.<\/p>\n
Peaches however stayed put and laid her egg in front of Toffee. It’s as if Topaz has a sixth sense for an egg being laid as she went straight in to the left coop to sit on the egg.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Topaz and Toffee<\/p><\/div>\n
Poor Toffee is desperate to get her egg laid and as usual has sprinkled her back with pine shavings.<\/p>\n
I returned a little later to find that Toffee had left the nest box and Topaz was sitting on Peach’s and Toffee’s eggs. I have found that if I gently ruffle Topaz’s tail it annoys her enough for her to leave the nest box and I can then collect the eggs and she will stay out. She does sometimes try to peck me though.<\/p>\n
Topaz seems to spend all morning trying to sit on any of the girls eggs but so far once turfed out of the nest box she will go off and feed and scratch as normal. I wonder how long she will behave like this before starting to lay again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday morning Toffee was in the left coop trying to lay her second egg this year. Topaz was in the right coop and Peaches wanted to lay her egg. Peaches decided to join Toffee (Toffee is a safer bet than … Continue reading