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<\/a>My girl’s eggs<\/p><\/div>\n
Their eggs remind me of the sugar almond eggs you can buy because of the lovely pastel colours. Apart from a few flecks of dirt they don’t look real.<\/p>\n
A week ago Honey laid her second egg since her moult (four days after her first egg since her moult) and I thought that she may be broody. She stayed in the nest box all afternoon and I lifted her out for the bedtime corn only to see her return to the nest box until bedtime.<\/p>\n
In the morning Honey seemed to have forgotten all about being broody and came out as usual and stayed out. I was pleased that she seemed back to normal although she hasn’t laid another egg since but the little girls never have laid many eggs.<\/p>\n
Amber also laid a soft shelled egg on the same day as Honey last laid and hasn’t laid since. I have been giving limestone flour to all the girls most days over the last week in the hope that it will help Amber with her next egg.<\/p>\n
Both little girls had stopped laying for four months since moulting. I am not sure if they have really started again or are going to just lay now and again and work up to it gradually.<\/p>\n
Bluebell didn’t do a full moult and never stopped laying although she just lays a little less frequently. She is laying an average of five eggs a week instead of laying weeks at a time without a break.<\/p>\n
Dotty stopped laying for two months while moulting then laid for five weeks before stopping again and she was laying four eggs a week. She is eating as well as ever, has a bright red comb and wattles and seems perfectly happy and healthy with a normal crop so I am sure it is probably just down to the weather or an after effect of her moult.<\/p>\n
Pepper also stopped laying for two months after moulting and has been laying for the last two weeks. She is laying four eggs a week.<\/p>\n
I don’t really mind how many eggs they lay as long as they are happy and healthy. There are enough eggs for us and we haven’t bought eggs since the girls started laying so I am more than happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All my girl’s apart from Dotty are back to laying again giving me an assortment of lovely eggs. Their eggs remind me of the sugar almond eggs you can buy because of the lovely pastel colours. Apart from a few … Continue reading