Bedtime line up

Last night I took a photo of the bedtime line up.

The current bedtime line up

Since Honey and Topaz have gone Speckles and Butterscotch have paired up. Speckles often used to dust bath with Honey and seemed to have a bit of an alliance with her. Speckles now seems to have formed an alliance with Butterscotch.

I have seen Speckles and Butterscotch dust bathing together almost on top of one another and they are often perched together. It is quite sweet to see this little friendship forming. Peaches and Barley are as inseparable as ever and Toffee and Emerald don’t much bother with each other.

Butterscotch easily shows she is top girl without any fuss. Toffee often has a go at Emerald to keep her below her and Emerald passes it down by then having a go at Speckles. The rest of the girls don’t bother much and seem to accept their place without any fuss.

The flock seem very settled now and I am enjoying the good feeling of the girls getting along together without any fuss.

Butterscotch has also gone the longest stretch between going broody which I am also enjoying but I don’t know how long it will last. She has been laying for just over a month now. Maybe this is to do with her getting her feathers in.

I have just been looking at my egg records and Toffee is laying the best with five or six eggs a week followed by Emerald and Butterscotch in joint second place with four or five eggs a week. Peaches is next with three or four eggs a week and Barley and Speckles are in joint place with two eggs a week. This is giving us a total of between twenty one and twenty four eggs a week.

I am surprised at how well the game girls (Toffee and Emerald) are laying. I am really enjoying the abundance of eggs at the moment and enjoying the harmony in my flock.