The strawberry plant that I gave the girls yesterday has been completely dismantled. The girls have spent all day again today pecking and scratching at it and the compacted roots with some quite woody pieces have been broken down. They still enjoyed scratching and pecking at the soil from the pot too.
The strawberry plant remains are still entertaining the girls
Towards the end of the day Barley and Peaches were still scratching and pecking at the remains
Meanwhile Sparkle and Toffee were enjoying a dust bath.
Sparkle
Toffee
While these girls were having a lovely time in their dust baths Topaz was in her favourite little coop trying to lay her egg. Barley and Peaches were very interested and went to have a look at her which started her shouting. Topaz is our grumpy girl and not at all tolerant. I lifted the lid of the little coop to take a photo and got a very angry stare.
Topaz gives me the evil eye
You can see by her eye and her body language that Topaz is not at all impressed by this intrusion. I apologised and gently lowered the lid.
The good news is that when I next checked the little coop there was Topaz’s egg. This is rather special because this is her sixth egg this year which equals her total of six eggs for the entire year last year! I really do think this is going to be Topaz’s year to shine on the egg laying front which goes some way to make up for her being such a grumpy girl. You have to love them for all their different personalities.
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Hurrah for Topaz ! Just goes to show there is hope for all. Like my old girl Clover I thought she had given up and now once again gives me an egg every other day.
You never know do you? Last year I didn’t know if Topaz would always be rubbish at laying or if she just got off to a bad start. It seems that it was the latter. I think she will be good this year just as long as she doesn’t go broody. Well done Clover!
Great that she has broken last year’s record – and has not yet gone broody! I went several fays with no one broody, but another wyandotte has decided that its her time …
I do feel for you. You seem to have more than your fair share of broodies. Of course I will have no idea until summer how prone to being broody the game girls (Toffee and Emerald) will be.