My girls have all been in the full swing of their first moult. Their eggs slowed down but with moulting and shorter daylight hours, what surprised me was that they actually continued to lay. The bantys who are in full moult mode have given up completely and I don’t blame them at all. They haven’t laid for three weeks now and before that only one egg every two or three weeks.
Pepper was laying about once a week during her moult but now her moult appears to have come to an end she is laying every other day. Dotty had taken to missing a couple of days between laying and is now on three days in a row with one missed in between. Bluebell, our egg machine, lays about five days in a row instead of up to two months in a row.
An interesting thing though is the difference in the size of the eggs. The first two in a row by Dotty produced a smaller egg than usual. I am sure this is all to do with moulting and any eggs are an unexpected bonus so I am certainly not complaining but like to log everything for future reference.
Dotty’s smaller egg
Bluebell’s egg is on the left, Pepper’s egg is the middle and Dotty’s egg is on the right.
I am amazed that the girls are still laying as many eggs are they are but I am interested how the process of moulting is effecting them. I am really pleased that they still look happy and healthy and are still laying eggs as this means it is not upsetting them too much and at the end of the day as long as they are happy then I am happy.
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