Since Snow laid her weird eggs (an egg inside an egg) on two occasions she has laid four normal eggs. The odd thing is that the shape of her eggs has changed. Snow used to lay small torpedo shaped eggs. Her eggs are now oval shaped but they are slightly wobbly in shape. They have a slight groove around them.
It’s difficult to see in a photo but they are not quite smooth in shape.
I am glad that Snow is back to getting hard shelled eggs laid one at a time. I do wonder though, what has changed to cause this. I just hope she doesn’t have any further problems with her egg laying.
Gold went broody eight days ago and Storm followed seven days ago. Gold snapped out of it after just one day. Storm came out of it after five days. Today Gold came back into lay after a week’s break. I am expecting Storm to lay again in another week’s time.
This means we are back to five girls laying again for now. The girls are still keeping us in plenty of eggs so we are happy with that.
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Interesting about the change in Snow’s egg shapes. One of mine, now 6 years old, has started to lay torpedo-shaped eggs, having always produced beautiful ovals in the past. She’s a marans and, as expected, the pigment gland functions less well and her eggs don’t hold the colour of previous years, but I’d never have thought about a shape change. I can just spot the slight mis-shape on Snow’s eggs but, as you say, the main thing is that her eggs have good shells.
I have read of eggs changing shape and colour as girls get older but Snow is only in her second year of laying. I just hope she carries on laying normally now.
Good to hear no more abnormal eggs.
It is a relief. I hope that’s the end of that now.