{"id":25326,"date":"2018-05-31T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2018-05-31T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:26:24","slug":"speckles-lays-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=25326","title":{"rendered":"Speckles lays an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Speckles laid an egg after exactly three weeks break. Her poop seems less sloppy recently. I hope that laying an egg is a sign that whatever was going on with her is getting better.<\/p>\n

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Speckles lays an egg<\/p><\/div>\n

The egg on the right is Emerald’s and the egg to the left of it is Speckle’s larger and paler egg. I couldn’t resist adding Cinnamon’s egg at the back on the left and Dandelion’s tiny egg in front of it.<\/p>\n

Speckles has been driving us mad with her shouting\/screaming in the afternoon when Emerald goes in to lay her egg. She has done this every other day for the last three weeks.<\/p>\n

Yesterday while Speckles laid her egg Emerald watched from the ramp of the nest box. About an hour later Emerald went in to lay her egg. For the first time in three weeks Speckles didn’t shout.<\/p>\n

Has she had a light bulb moment and realised that as she herself has just laid an egg, Emerald has gone in to lay an egg and not disappeared? It certainly does seem like that.<\/p>\n

We are hoping that Speckles will continue to lay and will stop shouting every time Emerald goes in to lay. Chickens are more complicated than we sometimes might imagine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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