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<\/a>The line around Amber’s egg is more pronounced<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Amber’s egg has blood on it<\/p><\/div>\n
This is not good. Amber’s always had a problem with her egg laying but last summer she only laid once or twice a week. She stopped during her winter moult and was healthy.<\/p>\n
In spring the problem returned and it seems that now she has matured she is laying more often. Honey now lays most days and Amber is laying every other day.<\/p>\n
This seems to have made her problem worse and now her eggs have blood on them which I know is a bad sign.<\/p>\n
After she has laid her egg she bounces back to her normal self again. I am reluctant to take her to a vet as I think they would advise that she be put to sleep. A chicken that struggles to lay eggs has a difficult life.<\/p>\n
I don’t feel she is ready to give up yet though. I don’t want her to suffer but I wouldn’t want her to go before her time either. She is my favourite girl although I know we shouldn’t have favourites. She is feisty and funny and she isn’t bottom girl despite being the smallest. She runs to me the fastest on her tiny little legs and she chats to me all the time. She is such a sweetie that it breaks my heart to know there is something wrong with her and we will probably lose her sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
Tonight she ran to the late afternoon treat of sunflower hearts. There were a few cabbage leaves left in the run so I tore them into tiny pieces and dropped them in front of each of the girls (this is a game we play at the end of the day if there are any leaves left uneaten). Amber was quick to run for her bits of cabbage.<\/p>\n
She is not ready to give up yet and neither am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amber has always struggled with her laying but whatever her problem is it seems to be getting worse. I said in a few posts back that her eggs had started getting a faint line around them which I thought may … Continue reading