A big surprise!

This morning the girls were all shouting as they all wanted to lay at once. Bluebell lays every day for about a week before taking a day off. Pepper lays for a couple of days then misses a day and hadn’t laid yesterday and Dotty laid her first eggs four days in a row then missed two days, so I knew they were all ready to lay.

I went and checked the nest box a few times but no eggs. When it was time for me to go out I went to check again, still no eggs in the nest box which I thought a bit odd. Then something caught my eye on the coop floor. I took the side panel off and to my surprise there were three eggs nestled together in the middle of the coop floor. When I picked them up I got a bigger surprise. Dotty’s egg was twice the size of the other two eggs. It looked like a duck egg! How on earth did she lay something that enormous!

Dotty’s giant egg

Dotty’s egg is on the right, Pepper’s in the middle and Bluebell’s on the left. I imagine this will probably have a double yolk and will post later if it does. Dotty is certainly making up for up starting her egg laying later than the other girls. No wonder she missed a couple of days. Dotty is full of surprises!