![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/freckles-is-broody.jpg\")
<\/a>Freckles is broody<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/i-lift-her-out-of-the-nest-box.jpg\")
<\/a>I lift Freckles out of the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n
This is another sure sign. When I lift her out she remains in the same position. I took her to the run and encouraged her to move off.<\/p>\n
This is a shame as she is the best layer and we only have two girls laying. This means Freckles will now take a break from laying and that will leave Cinnamon as our only egg laying girl.<\/p>\n
Freckles has laid twenty four eggs in the last month and a half and Cinnamon has laid nineteen eggs in the same time.<\/p>\n
Dandelion continues to look brighter but still hasn’t laid an egg and is no longer going to the nest box so maybe it was a false alarm. Speckles, Emerald and Dandelion have now all had spells in the nest box with no eggs arriving.<\/p>\n
I am continuing with the tylan to be on the safe side as I not really sure what is going on with Dandelion. Tomorrow will be day five of the tylan.<\/p>\n
The next time I checked on the girls Speckles was in the nest box.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-is-back-in-the-nest-box.jpg\")
<\/a>Speckles is back in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/emerald-soon-comes-to-watch-over-her.jpg\")
<\/a>Emerald soon comes to watch over her<\/p><\/div>\n
These two are such firm friends that one can’t do anything without the other being there too. Speckles came out a little later without laying once again. She is obviously feeling that she should be laying.<\/p>\n
When I next checked Speckles was settled in the other nest box and was purring to herself. That sounded like an egg was imminent.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-is-now-settled-in-the-other-nest-box.jpg\")
<\/a>Speckles is settled in the other nest box<\/p><\/div>\n
You can just see Emerald’s leg at the ramp. She is still keeping a vigil over Speckles.<\/p>\n
The next time I went up to check Speckles was back out in the run and I lifted the nest box lid with baited breath. Yes, at last their was her egg.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-and-freckles-eggs.jpg\")
<\/a>Speckles egg on the left and freckles egg on the right<\/p><\/div>\n
I felt so pleased, not because of the egg so much but because it means she is okay. I had started wondering if there was something adrift with her. Oh well one girl stops laying and another girls starts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a feeling that Freckles was about to go broody. After laying her last two eggs she lingered in the nest box. When I lifted her out she accepted it and didn’t return to the nest box but she … Continue reading