It's as if Mega chicken, Lola, knows we are re homing her. Whilst I have really enjoyed having her she is so much bigger than the other ones and has spoilt the balance between the chickens. We've got a home for her in a small flock of hens and arranged for this Saturday to be the re homing day so we could stay overnight and ensure she was settled in enough for us to leave her, knowing she would be okay.
However, Lola has a trick up her sleeve - she is broody. It's gone on for days now but she has still been laying her daily egg. She is a real grumbly chicken right now, all bluff and muster; puffing herself up and charging at the cat, screeching if we go near her and just being a complete horror. We can't pass her onto a new home in that state so we put her in the broody box. For those of you not aware of this, it's a three sided box with a chicken wire front and 'floor' so that the chicken cannot nest and get really comfortable, Putting her in the broody box should snap her out of the broodiness but she hasn't had this treatment before and she doesn't like it one little bit. So much so that, although she has already laid her daily egg this morning she has also produced a soft shelled egg that we found, almost glowing, in the broody box with her..
The photo above shows Lola's normal egg on the right with the shell-less egg (just held together with membrane) on the left.
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However, Lola has a trick up her sleeve - she is broody. It's gone on for days now but she has still been laying her daily egg. She is a real grumbly chicken right now, all bluff and muster; puffing herself up and charging at the cat, screeching if we go near her and just being a complete horror. We can't pass her onto a new home in that state so we put her in the broody box. For those of you not aware of this, it's a three sided box with a chicken wire front and 'floor' so that the chicken cannot nest and get really comfortable, Putting her in the broody box should snap her out of the broodiness but she hasn't had this treatment before and she doesn't like it one little bit. So much so that, although she has already laid her daily egg this morning she has also produced a soft shelled egg that we found, almost glowing, in the broody box with her..
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