{"id":34696,"date":"2022-03-28T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:16:03","slug":"first-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=34696","title":{"rendered":"First eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I felt that it was going to be a race between Gold and Snowflake to get their first egg laid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold was the first to settle in a nest box this morning. Snowflake was in and out of the nest boxes. Gold was in the nest box next to the store cabinet. Snowflake eventually settled in the nest box next to the gate which was the one she settled in the day before yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gold is in the nest box again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snowflake is also in the nest box again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A little later Gold came out of the nest box shouting. I checked and there was her first egg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gold’s first egg on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the left is Gold’s first egg followed by Salmon’s egg then next is Sugar’s egg and Flame’s egg is on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About an hour later I was cleaning up in the run when Snowflake left the nest box and there was her first egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snowflake’s first egg on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Snowflake’s egg is on the left and is bigger than Gold’s and darker in colour. Both Gold’s and Snowflake’s eggs have the same long shape. A similar line up for comparison with Snowflake’s on the left followed by Gold’s, with Salmon’s egg in the middle, which is rounder and bigger than Sugar’s egg which is next and Flame’s larger egg on the right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done both Gold and Snowflake! I am so proud of them. According to the breeder the new girls would be five months old now but I think perhaps they are six months old as that is the usual time to start laying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think perhaps she gave me the age of the youngest and possibly Storm is five months old and Gold and Snowflake six months old. Storm looks younger than these two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The odd thing is that Spot is now eleven months old and has yet to lay her first egg. I am really surprised that Gold and Snowflake have beaten Spot to it and what a coincidence that they have both laid their first egg on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There should be no need to buy anymore eggs now until the end of the summer. Hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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