{"id":30500,"date":"2020-01-23T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30500"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:28:30","slug":"more-girls-getting-ready-to-start-egg-laying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30500","title":{"rendered":"More girls getting ready to start egg laying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been surprised to see Speckles going in the nest box over the last week. Last year she laid one egg in March and five more in June. I wasn’t really expecting her to lay at all this year let alone to start earlier. It has been a milder winter though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday Flame also tried out the nest box and she started laying half way through February last year so the milder weather may be having an effect on the girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flame in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flame putting pine shavings on her back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flame comes out and Speckles looks in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckles looks in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckles comb is getting bigger and redder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckles tries out the other nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spangle also wants to see what is going on
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Spangle takes a look in the nest box
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After all this nest box action just Ebony laid yesterday and just Smoke today. I am sure that Flame will start soon though as this was typical practising before getting started. It seems that Speckles is thinking about it too but I think it will be a bit longer before she starts. I think Spangle was probably just being nosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is quite amusing to see all this action around the nest boxes. I am hopeful that I won’t have to buy any eggs soon. It will be lovely to have enough of our girls’s eggs to not need to supplement with shop bought eggs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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