Snow does it again

Since Snow laid her weird eggs she has laid eight wobbly shaped eggs, one every other day. Yesterday was the day she should have laid her next egg. She spent a couple of hours in a nest box then came out without laying. I wondered if this meant another weird egg was on the way.

This morning there was another weird egg under her roost spot. Snow looked fine and this time hadn’t looked poorly before laying it.

Again it was huge, the size of Red’s egg. I could feel the hard shelled egg inside. It also had a little tail attached to the bottom.

I don’t know why this is happening and I haven’t been able to find any answers on google. Every video I have seen on You Tube shows the outside egg with a yolk so I wonder why Snow’s outside egg has no yolk. The whole thing is a mystery and not something I have come across before.

I worry that there must be something wrong inside for this to be happening but I am relieved that so far Snow is getting the eggs laid. It is fortunate that the outer shell is soft and flexible because being so large it could otherwise get stuck or cause a prolapse.

I can only hope that Snow keeps getting her eggs laid without it causing her any ill effect. It is a worry that sometime in the future it may go wrong for her.

In other news Storm came back into lay after a break of two and a half weeks and has now laid two eggs.

Red came out of her broody spell after a week. Mango and Cloud have now been broody for a week so far and show no sign of coming out of it yet.

We have Gold, Storm and Snow currently laying. I scrambled Snow’s inner egg and fed it back to the girls as we didn’t fancy it. I did the same with her last one too.

We do seem to experience the full range of problems with our small flock. I just hope we can keep them healthy despite the set backs.