{"id":24976,"date":"2018-04-16T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T07:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24976"},"modified":"2018-04-16T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:13:23","slug":"dandelions-first-egg-of-the-year-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24976","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion’s first egg of the year at last"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I opened the chicken shed this morning to poop pick I found Dandelion’s first egg of the year. It was between her roost spot and the pop hole as if she had just dropped it on her way out of the chicken shed. It was soft shelled as I had suspected it would be.<\/p>\n

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Dandelion’s first egg of the year<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cinnamon’s egg for size comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

It was quite small which is a good thing as they are harder to pass with soft shells. Dandelion looked absolutely fine.<\/p>\n

This means we now have all the girls laying but as I had suspected it looks as if Dandelion will continue with her egg laying problem. Her eggs have been like this since she started laying last year no matter how much limestone flour and cod liver oil or baked, crushed, egg shells I gave her. It seems that when they start with a problem like this it will always remain so as I found with Amber before Dandelion.<\/p>\n

Dandelion looks bright and normal this morning though so I hope that she will just manage this. We had Amber for four years, so although I have never expected Dandelion to be a long lived girl, you never can tell. Having had Rusty and Apricot for only a year I feel that any time we have with Dandelion is a bonus.<\/p>\n

Some good news is that Emerald and Speckles have been going in the chicken shed at bedtime, for the last three nights, since I blocked their two favourite perches. I will keep the perches blocked for a while until I am sure a new habit has been established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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