{"id":41236,"date":"2025-12-12T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41236"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:39:13","slug":"silvers-second-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41236","title":{"rendered":"Silver&#8217;s second egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today Silver laid her second egg, two days after her first egg. I knew she was ready to lay when she started going in the nest box. I thought I would try to get a photo of her in the nest box this time. The first photo I got of her she was standing just inside the nest box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-just-inside-the-nest-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-just-inside-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-just-inside-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-just-inside-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-just-inside-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver just inside the nest box <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to give her a bit of time to settle in the nest box and then try to get another photo. When I returned Silver had already laid her egg and was standing beside it. She laid her egg very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-beside-her-second-egg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-beside-her-second-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-beside-her-second-egg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-beside-her-second-egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-beside-her-second-egg-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver beside her second egg <\/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\/silvers-eggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-eggs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-eggs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silvers-eggs-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver&#8217;s eggs <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Silver&#8217;s second egg is on the left and her first egg is on the right. The second egg doesn&#8217;t have a blood streak on it which is good and is just a bit longer than her first egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a clever girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Silver laid her second egg, two days after her first egg. I knew she was ready to lay when she started going in the nest box. 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