{"id":41959,"date":"2026-06-04T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41959"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:37:13","slug":"maple-lays-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41959","title":{"rendered":"Maple lays an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was only expecting Cloud to lay today as the other laying girls had laid yesterday so I left the nest boxes closed to keep the broodies out. I knew Cloud would let me know when she wanted to lay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept checking on the girls and at one point both Maple and Cloud were on the patio area just by the nest boxes so I opened the nest boxes and Maple went in straight away and started scratching around then settled down. This was the first time I had seen Maple settle in a nest box.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maple-in-the-nest-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maple-in-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maple-in-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maple-in-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maple-in-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Maple in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after Cloud went in the other nest box. When I next checked both Maple and Cloud had laid. Maple&#8217;s egg was quite small which was what I had expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maples-egg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maples-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maples-egg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maples-egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/maples-egg-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Maple&#8217;s egg with a coin for size compariosn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done Maple! We now have another layer. It will be interesting to see when she lays her next egg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was only expecting Cloud to lay today as the other laying girls had laid yesterday so I left the nest boxes closed to keep the broodies out. I knew Cloud would let me know when she wanted to lay. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41959\">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\/41959"}],"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=41959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41987,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959\/revisions\/41987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}