Spring in the Garden

Spring in the Garden

Sunday 1 July 2012

An Extra Egg

Amber has always been the one who lays the biggest eggs, so we felt we couldn't complain if she had gone off lay. She stopped laying late last year but started again when we had the Light Sussex pullets.  However she stopped after a few weeks.  We wondered if she would start laying again with the arrival of our current pullets, but she didn't. Then last week she started laying, albeit thin shelled eggs, which broke easily.  The first two were too broken to use.

On Monday or Tuesday hubby collected a whole egg laid by Amber, although the shell was still pretty thin.  Wednesday I was pleased to find three good eggs in the nest box, something we had not experienced since before Easter until last week.


It's easy to see who laid what as Amber's are very big and Fudge's eggs are long and thin and fairly small, no bigger than a medium.  Smokie's are growing bigger.  We have had 2 more eggs from Amber since.

4 comments:

  1. Is the middle one from a Bluebelle? Such a distinctive pinky blush :-)

    Glad the girls are laying well

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  2. You've guessed right, Sarah, Smokie is a Bluebell.

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  3. Great to hear that they are laying ok again.

    Kay :)

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  4. Fudge and Smokie having been laying pretty well since we got them. It's been a few days since we had an egg from Amber, so we'll see. Basically she is a menopausal chicken.

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