Apricot’s first egg

Apricot  has just laid her first egg. It turns out that she isn’t a squatter as she still doesn’t squat when I hold my hand over her. I thought she had gone in the nest box for her usual practice. She has done this for four days now. I went to check on her just as she was standing over her first egg.

Its so cute, tiny and pointed at one end, with a little blood streak on it.

Apricot’s first egg

It is so small that it falls right through the egg stand.

Here it is with some coins for size comparison

Egg comparisons

Emerald’s egg is on the left. She is always taking the grit and oyster shell and this gives her egg shells little calcium bumps. Next is Apricot’s first egg which is pointier than any of the others. Next is Dandelion’s, pale shelled, egg. Next is Cinnamon’s, then Freckles round egg and on the right Rusty’s slightly larger egg.

It’s interesting that Freckles, Rusty and Cinnamon’s eggs have beige coloured shells while Dandelion and Apricot’s have white shells.

Emerald’s eggs also have beige shells whereas when Speckles lays, her eggs are large, with white shells. This means it will be really easy to tell the two bigger girls apart if I was out on a day when they both laid.

Well done Apricot! What a clever girl and she laid it in the nest box too. That means all the girls are now laying girls and Apricot has started before Emerald has stopped which is a bonus. That first egg is always so precious.