{"id":5893,"date":"2013-09-16T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2013-09-16T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:59:03","slug":"my-girls-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=5893","title":{"rendered":"My girls eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have said before that I can tell my girls eggs apart. The girls all have the same diet available to them but Dotty is always pecking at grit in the garden or taking it from the dispenser and her eggs usually have little calcium deposits on the pointed end of the egg.<\/p>\n

Pepper’s eggs are completely smooth as well as being paler so even though they are the same breed their eggs look quite different. Bluebells eggs have a small amount of calcium but it’s more of a slightly grainy effect than the obvious bits on Dotty’s egg.<\/p>\n

Honey’s eggs are also smooth and pale just like Pepper’s but smaller and Ambers eggs are slightly smaller still.<\/p>\n

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Bluebell’s egg is on the left then Dotty’s egg, then Pepper’s egg then Honey’s egg on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

Dotty’s eggs often have these little calcium deposits whereas Pepper’s are so silky smooth and pale.<\/p>\n

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Honey’s egg is in the middle and Amber’s slightly smaller egg is on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n

Amber only lays about once a week and her eggs are still a bit smaller than Honey’s. Honey lays usually every other day and occasionally two days in a row.<\/p>\n

Pepper had dropped to one egg a week but recently she has started laying every three or four days then yesterday she laid for the second day in a row for the first time since mid July. I wonder if the winter molt is over, they were so ragged from feather pulling that it was difficult to tell if they were molting at all. They look ragged around their tails but have some new feathers and no obvious loss of feathers so I’m not really sure what is going on. It will be a case of wait and see how they progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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