All my girl’s apart from Dotty are back to laying again giving me an assortment of lovely eggs.
My girl’s eggs
Their eggs remind me of the sugar almond eggs you can buy because of the lovely pastel colours. Apart from a few flecks of dirt they don’t look real.
A week ago Honey laid her second egg since her moult (four days after her first egg since her moult) and I thought that she may be broody. She stayed in the nest box all afternoon and I lifted her out for the bedtime corn only to see her return to the nest box until bedtime.
In the morning Honey seemed to have forgotten all about being broody and came out as usual and stayed out. I was pleased that she seemed back to normal although she hasn’t laid another egg since but the little girls never have laid many eggs.
Amber also laid a soft shelled egg on the same day as Honey last laid and hasn’t laid since. I have been giving limestone flour to all the girls most days over the last week in the hope that it will help Amber with her next egg.
Both little girls had stopped laying for four months since moulting. I am not sure if they have really started again or are going to just lay now and again and work up to it gradually.
Bluebell didn’t do a full moult and never stopped laying although she just lays a little less frequently. She is laying an average of five eggs a week instead of laying weeks at a time without a break.
Dotty stopped laying for two months while moulting then laid for five weeks before stopping again and she was laying four eggs a week. She is eating as well as ever, has a bright red comb and wattles and seems perfectly happy and healthy with a normal crop so I am sure it is probably just down to the weather or an after effect of her moult.
Pepper also stopped laying for two months after moulting and has been laying for the last two weeks. She is laying four eggs a week.
I don’t really mind how many eggs they lay as long as they are happy and healthy. There are enough eggs for us and we haven’t bought eggs since the girls started laying so I am more than happy with that.
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They look beautiful! You are right they do look like sugared almonds. That box sets them off perfectly.
Although we are down to just the lovely old girl Clover at the moment trying to show the new girls that there is life in the old chick yet ,we have not brought an egg for over 3 years and I often wonder what the shop eggs taste like it is a pity that I would have to buy 6 to find out .
We had a small cooked breakfast this morning as our Sunday treat with a fried banty egg each. We usually poach our eggs but as the banty eggs are smaller I fry them. As we have had only two banty eggs in two weeks it is a treat.
The big girls keep us in enough eggs though and I feel really good about not having to buy eggs. I feel as though I never want to eat a shop bought egg again. I love the rich colour of our eggs and the fact that they come from happy girls. It’s a real added bonus to the joy of having chickens.
Beautiful eggs in the perfect container!
My girls have started laying again after their winter break. How I have missed those precious presents each day 🙂 x
It’s funny but the container was a sudden brain wave. I had taken a photo of the eggs in a white dish and of course they didn’t really show up well. I looked around the kitchen for something in a different colour and realised all my containers are white on the inside. Then I spotted the valentine chocolate tin and realised the gold inside would show the eggs off. Of course the chocolates hadn’t stayed long in the tin.
I know what you mean about the welcome return of the precious eggs.
Do you supplement your coop with light? I don’t think you do. How many hours of light are you getting a day? I read chickens need 14 hours to stimulate their egg laying cycle.
We’re only getting 10 hours of light a day and Coco is laying just fine. But the other two are not laying and I keep talking to them telling them they need to earn their keep. But there’s no talking to those gals.
I don’t supplement my coop with light. I prefer the girls to have a natural environment and to lay eggs when it’s natural for them. We too are getting ten hours of daylight here, from seven thirty to five thirty.
I think they are doing pretty well really considering the length of the days. I know what you mean though, there is no telling them what they should be doing. I tell them stuff all the time and they rarely take any notice.