Amber’s first normal egg

Amber has laid two tiny eggs and two soft shelled eggs and when she laid the soft shelled eggs she looked really unwell. My friend, Jackie has kindly offered me some of her limestone flour to improve the egg shells but as we are not meeting up until Thursday I felt I needed to do something before that to help Amber with her egg laying.

While cooking our weekend roast, I put a tray of the girls crushed egg shells in the bottom of the oven to dry out. Once completely dried I ground them up with my pestle and mortar until they were really fine. I have been putting the crushed egg shell in a couple of dishes of mash each morning.

The last couple of mornings when I did this, Bluebell was in the nest box laying her egg. This was quite useful as it enabled the little girl’s to get their share without being chased away.

This afternoon we found a banty egg in the run and it has a normal shell. We are sure it is Amber’s as it is smaller than Honey’s eggs and Honey lays hers in the nest box. It probably took Amber by surprise.

I haven’t got an egg from Honey to compare it with but when she next lays one I will photograph them together.

Peppers egg on the left and Ambers egg on the right

The girls seem to have settled together a bit better at the moment. While Dotty and Pepper were laying their egg Bluebell was having a dust bath and Amber joined her and had a dust bath next to her.

Later in the afternoon, all the big girls were sat having a snooze and Honey went and sat with them. I hope that we are over the worse now and things continue like this.