{"id":31023,"date":"2020-04-17T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31023"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:35:09","slug":"speckles-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31023","title":{"rendered":"Speckles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speckles has been very vocal recently. In fact she has had spells of really shouting. I then remembered her doing this last summer before laying her six eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speckles has halved her number of eggs every year so if she follows her pattern she could lay three this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the shouting Speckles has also had a brief sit in the nest box near the gate which is Ebony’s favourite nest box. Speckles only spends a few minutes sitting and it is as if she is reminding herself that this is where she needs to go if she does need to lay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point when she was in the nest box I got my camera as I felt that I needed proof that she really was sitting in the nest box. The next day Speckles sat in the same nest box again but this time Ebony joined her as she needed to lay her egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got my camera again as I thought they looked so sweet together. As soon as I had taken the photo Speckles left the nest box and Ebony went on to lay her egg. So far Speckles has only spent a few minutes in the nest box each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speckles in the nest box

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Speckles and Ebony share a nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They look so sweet. Not so sweet when they are shouting though. Egg laying does cause a lot of noisy girls. I don’t think Speckles is quite ready to lay yet but she is definitely thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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