jennym Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Yay! Pippa, our Miss Pepperpot, has finally laid an egg after showing so many signs. Her wattle and combs have been quite red for a couple of weeks, she's been crouching and eating more, and yesterday she tore the nest apart then sat on it 'practising' for about an hour . I was sure there would be an egg there yesterday but all's well today! It's paler than Lucy's, our , and it has loads of speckles, but the speckles are white!? Not what I was expecting but what do I know, these are our first hens Lucy's first had (dark) speckles too, and it was quite small, but she's now producing a fairly standard brown supermarket egg each day. I guess time will tell. Now it's all up to Belle to produce the goods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennym Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 And here they are - new egg on left, egg on right... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Well done Pippa One of ours started off with lots of white speckles, but after a while they went and now she lays clear brown eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 clever girls! their eggs do seem to change, I guess it is to do with their 'tackle' getting into gear and getting used to the egg-laying process - must be a bit of a surprise to start with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennym Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 I went out this morning to open the eglu and I found a softie beside the glug. It was quite dim when I shut the door last night and I didn't see it. We have a chook cam that takes occasional pictures, so my sleuthing has revealed that it appeared between 18:53 and 19:01 last night, but I didn't catch whose bum was perched there at the key time! Now I'm confused, as I thought I had identified yesterday's new layer on the assumption that Belle looks a bit younger - her wattles and comb are more grey than red, and her legs haven't lightened up as much. Now I'm wondering, as both Richard and I thought the new egg had a purple-ish tinge to it. Maybe the new, morning egg was Belle and the evening softie was Pippa ?! Well, this is a great excuse to do a lot of chook-watching today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
