All is well in the chicken run

I realised that I haven’t put out a post in a while. There were a few more posts as egg laying commenced and then there really hasn’t been much happening which is certainly no bad thing. I can do without dramas!

Spangle laid her second egg of the year three days after her first. This egg was smaller than her first one and had no blood streak on it. It was her usual torpedo shape and slightly darker colour. I think because the first egg took longer for her to lay it was slightly bigger for her and that was why it had the blood streak.

It’s a week ago since Salmon laid her second egg of the year. Salmon isn’t a frequent layer. Marmite has now laid four eggs in six days so not bad at all. Flame continues to lay every other day and Ebony still isn’t laying.

I wonder if it’s because Ebony started laying so early in the year that she isn’t laying now. She started half way through January. Flame started laying half way February both this year and last year. Ebony laid all through the winter last year so she was obviously in her first year. This means I don’t have a comparison.

Spangle is my friendliest little girl and as I went to take a photo of her coming out of the nest box she looked straight up at me for a close up.

Marmite’s egg is on the right and Spangle’s egg is on the left. This is her usual beige colour and elongated shape. This is why I have always found it relatively easy to tell the girls’ eggs apart.

I am very happy with the girls this winter. Despite it being a horribly wet winter there haven’t been any problems with the girls which is great and long may it continue.