{"id":21242,"date":"2017-06-03T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21242"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:55:21","slug":"speckles-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21242","title":{"rendered":"Speckles egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speckles hasn’t laid an egg for two and a half weeks. She has been growing back her feathers after being plucked which has been like having a mini moult. For the last four or five days she has sat in the nest box for a while each day.<\/p>\n

I thought that she probably didn’t know why she wasn’t laying eggs. Today there was a slight change in her behaviour. About six times during the morning I saw her go to the grit and oyster shell. I began to think that perhaps today was going to be the day she started laying again.<\/p>\n

She went into the nest box and came out a bit later with a shout. I went to check. Oh my goodness! There was her first egg after her break and it was the same shape and colour as Apricot’s first egg but it was huge.<\/p>\n

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Speckles egg on the left, Apricot’s egg in the middle and Emerald’s egg on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speckles egg in the middle<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speckles egg in the middle of the egg stand<\/p><\/div>\n

Wow! What a long egg. It is good to have her back laying again. I think like Apricot she has felt this coming for days. Now we have all the girls laying. Happy egg days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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