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<\/a>Is she broody?<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>She stayed quite flat<\/p><\/div>\n
I moved her off and shut the coops. I thought that as no one is laying it would be good if I could nip it in the bud.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Butterscotch<\/p><\/div>\n
Butterscotch is looking good. She has grown back the feathers that Honey pulled from her back, during the integration period.<\/p>\n
Butterscotch protested about being locked out and when some time later she was still clucking away I decided to let her back in. I didn’t want to stress her and thought perhaps she really did want to lay.<\/p>\n
I checked on her another two hours later and found her sitting on an egg. This is egg number twenty one which beats her previous record of twenty. I am so glad that I had let her back in. I lifted her out once more and shut the coops again. I still feel she is wanting to go broody.<\/p>\n
An hour later I was pleased to see her in a dust bath.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Butterscotch leaving her dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n
By the time I got my camera she had just stepped out of the dust bath.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Peaches and Speckles<\/p><\/div>\n
I just had to include this photo because a short while ago Speckles would never have let me get this close to her. She is standing in Butterscotch’s dust hole.<\/p>\n
I shall keep a close eye on Butterscotch as it would be good if I could stop her going broody again especially as she is the only girl laying any eggs. In the end though if she is determined it will just have to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday morning I realised that Butterscotch had been in the nest box for about three hours. She is usually only in there for half an hour so I decided to lift her out. She had laid and had been sitting … Continue reading