Broody Girls
Myrtle, the recently named Splash OE, has been stealing Labelle's nest. Here, you see she has taken over. There must have been a bit of a skuffle since Labelle's apron was askew. The thing is, Myrtle isn't truly broody. She just likes to steal the nest, sit on it a while, and she doesn't stay on. I have to go out several times a day and knock her out. She hasn't added any more eggs to the clutch, and after candling them yesterday, we
Calamity Jane, the darker EE, is laying her egg. I thought she may be going broody since I had gotten two blue eggs, but she hadn't laid hers yet.
Spaz refuses to lay in the coop. I've had to close her up until afternoon so she won't lay under the storage building.
I moved the nest when I candled the eggs last night.
.... and it happened again.
Another note, look who has started laying! Blue, the younger OE. I guess she's about 20 weeks old or so... Oddly, the OE is not laying olive eggs, but blue! Even more blue than Spaz. LOL
Blue's egg
Don't mind the brown egg. The green egg on the left came from Myrtle. The aqua mint egg on the right is from Spaz. The minty blue came from Blue. Legitimately, she is no longer an OE. LOL
This is yesterday afternoon's cache of eggs. Two duck eggs and five chicken. I went back out last night to close up the coop and I had another blue egg and a brown egg.
Terra wanted to help.
Ducks
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