{"id":30599,"date":"2020-02-09T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30599"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:45:16","slug":"first-broody-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30599","title":{"rendered":"First broody of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have had a feeling over the last few days that Smoke was about to go broody. She has laid nineteen eggs in twenty eight days. Smoke often lays three days in a row then misses a day then another three days in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning she was in the nest box after already laying three days in a row. Later she was joined by Flame. Flame has been laying every other day and has laid four eggs so far. Flame’s and Smoke’s eggs are usually side by side as they both like the same nest box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I checked a little later Flame was just coming out of the nest box. I lifted the lid and no egg was in sight. I then lifted Smoke and there was Flame’s egg. Smoke had snaffled it underneath herself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little later I lifted Smoke out for a break. She sat for a minute in the usual broody pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broody Smoke

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Smoke has done well to lay nineteen eggs before going broody. As the season goes on she will lay less eggs between broody spells if last year is anything to go by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile Ebony laid eight eggs and now hasn’t laid for a week. She is looking a bit tatty so I think that she is moulting in stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marmite has recently been quite vocal so I think that she will be the next girl to start laying. Without Smoke we now have only Flame laying for the moment. We had just started to get more eggs and now they have fallen back again. Oh well, lets hope Marmite starts laying soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the end of the day Smoke had laid another egg making it twenty eggs in twenty eight days and four days in a row. Smoke often lays one last egg at the start of being broody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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