{"id":41227,"date":"2025-12-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41227"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:45:00","slug":"silvers-first-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41227","title":{"rendered":"Silver&#8217;s first egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Silver has been squatting for a few weeks now but yesterday for the first time she started investigating the nest boxes. She spent a lot of time flicking the pine shavings out and going in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning Silver was again going in and out of the nest boxes. I didn&#8217;t manage to get a photo because  every time I would lift the nest box lid Silver would run out. I only managed to get a blurred photo of her running down the ramp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However when I checked the nest boxes at lunch time there was Silver&#8217;s first egg with the little blood streak that first eggs often have.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-first-egg-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-first-egg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-first-egg-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-first-egg-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-first-egg-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver&#8217;s first egg on the left with a medium shop bought egg on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-little-blood-streak-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-little-blood-streak-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-little-blood-streak-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-little-blood-streak-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-little-blood-streak-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver&#8217;s egg with a little blood streak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/size-comparison-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/size-comparison-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/size-comparison-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/size-comparison-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/size-comparison-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Size comparison in the egg stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> It is a surprising time of year to start laying but as ever I felt so proud of her. It is lovely that we will start having our own eggs again. Well done Silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver has been squatting for a few weeks now but yesterday for the first time she started investigating the nest boxes. She spent a lot of time flicking the pine shavings out and going in and out. This morning Silver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/41227"}],"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=41227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41243,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions\/41243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}