Yesterday morning Barley went into her favoured nest box (right hand little coop) and laid her fourth egg.
Peaches meanwhile spent all day scratching around in all three nest boxes and chucking pine shavings out every where. I wondered if we were going to get an egg each from these two.
By late afternoon Peaches had settled in the right hand little coop. When I next checked there was her first egg, hurrah! Two eggs in one day. It was shorter and rounder than Barley’s egg and I am glad to say it only had the tiniest streak of blood on it, hardly noticeable at all.
Barley’s egg on the left and Peaches first egg on the right
Well done peaches! Her first egg is exactly two weeks behind Barley. It will be so good to have these two girls laying through the winter months. My two youngsters are proper grown up girls now.
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Hurrah. What a pair! I’m surprised they didn’t lay on the same day , same time , same place seeing how together they always are 🙂
Two out of three, they did lay on the same day and in the same place. Peaches laid her second egg today, only two days later. I knew it was Peaches egg because she had been really vocal and had been scratching about in the nest box. Also her egg is rounder than Barley’s but this second egg is already a little bigger than the first. Looks like Peaches is going to be a good egg layer.
Great news – no problems for breakfast this Sunday!
You are so right, this Sunday we will have eggs for breakfast. Peaches has already laid her second egg today with only one day between her two eggs so it looks likes she may be a good little egg layer. We have three eggs already this week and I am sure it will reach four by Sunday. Hurrah for the little girls laying eggs and becoming grown up little girls. They are just so adorable!