Cat box, nest box

Since I put the cat box in the shed as an extra nest box, Emerald has laid every one of her eggs in there. She seems to prefer the cat box.

Freckles also lays her eggs in there. Speckles laid a couple in there but then stopped laying while her head feathers are growing. She goes to sit in the wooden nest box for a while each day though, as if she doesn’t realise she has stopped laying, but she has long since lost interest in the cat box.

Rusty had never laid in the cat box but after her three day broody spell she took two weeks off of laying and then yesterday laid her first egg in the cat box.

Dandelion started laying (or sitting as most of her eggs ended up in the run) in the cat box but has now switched to laying in the wooden nest box. Cinnamon is the only one never to have shown any interest in the cat box and always lays in the wooden nest box.

Emerald like to lay all her eggs in the cat box

She is laying weeks beyond the time of year that she usually stops laying and is laying five or six days out of seven.

Rusty lays her first egg in the cat box

Freckles lays her egg in the cat box

I had considered removing the cat box but as it has proved to be so popular I have decided to leave it be. It seems that the girls have chosen to keep it.