{"id":37643,"date":"2023-09-26T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37643"},"modified":"2023-09-26T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:19:22","slug":"another-surprise-egg-laying-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37643","title":{"rendered":"Another surprise egg laying girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dot has now laid her third egg after her break and this time only two days after her last egg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently noticed that Mango’s comb had gone red once more after being paler while she had her partial moult. Then I noticed that she had started squatting when I came up behind her. I wondered if she was getting ready to lay again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday Mango was very vocal and I again wondered if she was about to start laying. She then had a twirl round in all three nest boxes and all four corners of the chicken shed. She flicked pine shavings out of each nest box in turn and spent quite a bit of time scratching round in them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time I went up to check on Mango I took my camera with me to see if I could catch her in a nest box. I caught her just as she had laid her egg. She had a pile of pine shavings on her back. What a surprise. I really didn’t expect Mango to start laying again this year. It was exactly two weeks after she last laid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mango has just laid her egg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mango had placed pine shaving on her back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dot and Mango’s eggs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the left is a shop bought egg for size comparison. In the middle is Dot’s third egg after her break. On the right is Mango’s egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had assumed that game girls had a short season but it seems that maybe these girls don’t. It is lovely to be getting a few eggs when I thought we were finished for this year. It will be interesting to see how many more we get. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dot has now laid her third egg after her break and this time only two days after her last egg. I recently noticed that Mango’s comb had gone red once more after being paler while she had her partial moult. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37643"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37673,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643\/revisions\/37673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}