Eggs

We’re not totally sure who is laying … but certainly a hen, an LS bantam and a true bantam! The wind egg on the end is the tiniest little egg we’ve ever had 🙂

We took down the fence between the two broods and they are gradually adapting. Organising the pecking order was a little brutal to be honest, but it’s the hens lower down who do the damage: the top hen is secure. Although I perceive a slight adjustment even there – I suspect Dorcas, who has been top hen from the beginning, is now second to Delilah … so it’s Deanna who is throwing her weight around among the various bantams … and it’s the second Moppet that is challenging the Mille Fleur at any given opportunity. Are you following me?!

The LS bantams were the first to take themselves off to the Cube to join the older girls for the night – but only after a few evenings of removing them from the top of the shelter once they were settled. They preferred to sleep there rather than in the little coop with the MF, and were perfectly safe there, but not yet having had any experience of rain, they were clueless as to what to do if it rained overnight so we moved them.

Evangeline, the more confident MF, eventually took herself off to the Cube overnight (hence the confusion as to who exactly is laying where – we were still getting one bantam egg in the little coop). Emily only joined her after we removed the little coop – in reality a hutch, and once the weather broke, we didn’t think it that durable out in the open. I am a little concerned about Emily – she’s very quiet in general, would rather be left alone than go about with the others, and as a result is almost certainly destined to be at the bottom of the pecking order for good … but she has her wits about her even so and has found a way to keep out of reach …

Posted by LB on July 30, 2018

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