Eggs please!

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Feels like we have been eggless forever. The CLBs are well due to start laying as soon as the days start to get noticeable longer. They think it is great fun to kick all the nice comfortable nesting material out of the nest boxes at the moment and I keep putting it back and telling them that they will be thankful of it soon.
 
On 4th January my trusty Chalkhill Blue started laying again- my first egg since October. She's now laid 819 eggs since we got her, though she's not yet convinced by the nestboxes in the new coop.

I've told her she has to get used to it & teach the new girls what to do; they're still producing skinny poos, so no eggs from them for a while yet...
 
We're nearly 6 weeks through the darkest days, three weeks before and after the solstice, so at least here in the southern half of the country things should be picking up soon. I wonder when hens return to lay up on Fetlar, HenGen?
 
I like the way you keep a tally for your hens Icemaiden
and the way that keeping chickens keeps us keenly tuned into the year in the modern world.
I should keep a tally for the new hens. Mo is still developing a comb very, very slowly. Maybe she will just have a small comb for keeps.
 
My other CLB laid yesterday, so probably not too long to wait now Rick.
She must be at least 3 now, and I wondered if she would still be laying, but good girl, she is, although both hens are now getting quite large and plump, easy to tell apart, they have different "cloaks" one mostly dark and one mostly light feathers.
 
That's handy Val. Lulu and Pom (strange name I know but it's stuck now) are virtually identical apart from a different fold of their combs and their characters - Pom trying to blend in with the crowd and Lulu totally in your face! I find it funny though, however bold they are as soon as you make to pick one up they're gone. Betty was like that as well, even when she was laying.
 
3/5 today! My two-year-old hybrids have been laying all though last winter, last summer and this winter, a brown one from the Blacktail and a white from the Leghorn. Lately the Blacktail has taken to laying a huge, misshapen egg on alternate days. Today my 4-year-old Chalk Hill hybrid came up with a lovely green egg. All 3 looked very pretty in the bowl.
Now waiting to se if the 6-year-old brown leghorn hybrid and the 7-year-old CLB will also manage any this year.
 
Our Light Sussex's combs are turning a nice shade of red and one laid her 1st egg after the winter break yesterday. Our 5 year old Bluebell also decided to lay an egg and boy didn't we all know about it!
The hybrid layers just looked at her as if to say " get over it, we can do this every day" then scuttled out of the way in case she decided to celebrate further by beating someone up
 
Well done, Rick.

One of my CLBs has started to lay very large eggs, they really are obliging girls.

My first CLB laid no more than a few eggs over her life time, and the second one the same. Lucy and (nosey) Parker are on a different planet as far as egg laying is concerned. 3 or 4 each a week each, and they do look pretty in a box with dusky purple, brown cream and white eggs.
 
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