![\"Peaches](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/peaches_trying_to_lay_her_egg.jpg\")
<\/a>Peaches is trying to lay her egg while Barley watches over her<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Emerald](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emerald_and_honey_get_in_on_the-act.jpg\")
<\/a>Emerald and Honey get in on the act<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Barley](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/barley_move_above.jpg\")
<\/a>Barley now watches from above as Honey has taken her place<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Speckles](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/speckles-on_my-eye_level_once_more.jpg\")
<\/a>Speckles jumps to the nest box lid at eye level with me once again<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"She](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/she_watches.jpg\")
<\/a>She takes a look at the girls below<\/p><\/div>\n
It is always this same set of girls that have to watch a girl in the nest box as soon as I take a look. Butterscotch, Toffee and Topaz don’t join in with this although you can see that they are milling about nearby on the patio area.<\/p>\n
A little later Peaches got her egg laid and soon after that Barley laid her egg. They are even in sync with their egg laying at the moment. One difference between them though is their egg size. These two are a very similar size with Peaches being just a little wider across the beam but you can only see this when they are side by side.\u00a0Their eggs however are quite different in size.<\/p>\n
![\"Barley's](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/peaches_and_barleys_eggs.jpg\")
<\/a>Barley’s egg is on the left and Peaches egg is on the right<\/p><\/div>\n
By late afternoon when I checked in again Butterscotch was back in the nest box despite laying her egg first thing this morning. It is day twenty two since she started laying again, so as usual like clockwork, it looks like she is going broody once more.<\/p>\n
Speckles again jumped to the child gate when I went in the run later in the day. I stroked her and felt that I could easily have picked her up. If my husband is nearby with the camera I may try this next time.<\/p>\n
When I went in to give them their bedtime corn Butterscotch was back out again. I think she knew it was corn time.<\/p>\n
I went back at dusk and Butterscotch was in the nest box instead of the chicken shed so that means she is definitely broody once more. I lifted her out and placed her on the perch in the chicken shed.<\/p>\n
And that’s another day with my funny little girls. They do make us smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning Butterscotch laid her egg first thing as she always does after she has missed a day. A bit later Peaches was in the nest box. When I next checked Barley was also missing and it turned out that … Continue reading