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When I next checked on Spangle she was out in the run and no egg was in the nest box. I picked her up to check on her and she had a messy bottom. I cleaned it as best I could with kitchen roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A bit later Spangle returned to the nest box and had another try. Once more she was straining and then she gave up without laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next time I checked on Spangle she was in the run and didn’t look right. She had her wings down and her eyes were closing. I guessed that she must have an egg stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I felt really upset. It seems that as each serama comes back in to lay they have a problem and I felt as if it was possible that I would lose them one by one. Spangle has never had a problem laying an egg before but then neither had Shadow or Smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hoped that later in the day if I could see some soft shell I could pull it out. I planned on bathing Spangle the next day if she still hadn’t passed her egg but wasn’t optimistic about that as it has never worked for me yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I visualised taking Spangle to the vet over the next day or two. I knew my decision not to have any more seramas was the right one and I visualised soon not having any seramas or being left with only Sugar spending ninety percent of her time in a nest box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I kept checking on Spangle and each time she hadn’t moved. I then checked back again a little later and Spangle was on the patio area looking back to normal. I was so surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I looked over to the spot in the run where she had been and there in the dirt was her egg. I was so relieved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the right is Flame’s last egg which was smaller than usual. Next is Snowflake’s and then Gold’s and then Spangle’s usual torpedo shaped egg on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I couldn’t understand why Spangle’s egg had been so difficult to pass as it looked fine. This morning I made scrambled egg for breakfast and cracked Spangle’s egg to see what the shell was like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The shell was wafer thin which explains why it was difficult to lay. I am so relieved that Spangle managed to lay the egg. I am hoping this is just a blip as it’s her first egg of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily Spangle doesn’t lay often. She usually averages an egg once a week. I worry about her next egg but we have to cross that bridge when we get to it and we have still have Salmon to start laying yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These girls do know how to worry me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I could see that Spangle wanted to lay her first egg of the year. Spangle was in the nest box for quite a long time. When I went to check on Spangle I thought that I had caught her … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/spangle-back-in-the-run-and-not-looking-happy.jpg\")
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