Barbara in the nesting box, laying another egg
The chucks are getting into full egg-laying swing now. Yesterday, for the first time, there were two eggs waiting for us in the nesting box. One smooth fudgey cream; one speckly brown. We clearly have two hens laying now.
Best of all, while the first three eggs were about the size of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg, these ones are the size of proper supermarket eggs. We now have five eggs in total.
The question is, who is the second secret layer? We suspect Margot, as she was doing some squatting and wing wobbling the other day, which is what Barbara started doing just before she started laying. Now she does it all the time like she can’t decide whether there’s already one half out.
The other reason we suspect Margot is that the brown speckles seem to go with her colouring and the general colour of the shells more closely match her ears than Gerry’s light lobes.
Either way, we clearly have two thirds of our flock now in production. We could soon have more eggs than we really know what to do with.
Which was the idea all along.
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