{"id":34801,"date":"2022-04-27T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=34801"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:41:01","slug":"storms-first-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=34801","title":{"rendered":"Storm’s first egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the last few days Storm has been trying out the nest boxes. Today I found her tiny egg in the nest box. I didn’t actually catch her in the nest box but the egg is so tiny that it has to be hers. Gold and Snowflake had already laid their egg today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storm’s first egg on the left, Gold’s in the middle and Snowflake’s on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm’s egg with some coins for size comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What a sweet little egg and what a clever girl! It looks like Spot is going to be last girl to lay if she ever does. Spot is a year old and it is a mystery as to why she hasn’t started laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news Flame is through her broody spell and Sugar is now in the dog crate. She has been broody for a full month now and is showing no sign of giving up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar’s turn in broody jail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how long she would go on for if I left her to it. I can’t leave her any longer because the longer she goes on the more committed she becomes and she no longer takes breaks. I worry that she will lose condition and also it’s no life for a chicken sitting day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure how long it will take to break her of this but I hope it won’t be too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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