Butterscotch had been dropping feathers like crazy but over the last few days they have slowed again. She never appears to look any different though.
This afternoon there was no sign of her in the run and when I checked to my surprise she was in one of the little coop nest boxes.
Butterscotch is in the nest box
A while later she gave the shout and I went to check the nest box. To my surprise there were two eggs side by side. They were the typical slightly pinkish colour of her eggs with the slightly satin finish that her eggs have. I think she must have laid one of them yesterday.
Butterscotch’s eggs
I had been checking the nest boxes every day up until a few days ago when I stopped bothering as no one was laying.
Checking my egg record sheet Butterscotch laid twenty eggs then took fourteen days off. She then laid twenty one eggs and again took fourteen days off before laying these two. What a regular girl she is and what a star!
So we have eggs again, hurrah! Hopefully like before she will keep us in our weekend breakfast eggs for a while. I really didn’t expect her to lay again until spring so this is a really lovely surprise.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
She is one superb bantam. 🙂
I agree, she amazes me! I really didn’t expect her to lay again before spring. I have Butterscotch and you have Dart, how amazing can these bantam girls be!
My hen Peach once tried to lay 2 eggs in one day. The first one was good, but the second was an “alien egg” that was like an egg without a shell. Ooh, it was weird!
How odd! I don’t think these were on the same day though as I hadn’t checked for a few days. Looking back last time she laid two days, missed a day then laid five days so I will see if this the same pattern.
Well done that girl !
What a trouper .
She is a star!