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She’s back…

March 2nd, 2012 § 0

Last week’s rest cure in the garden worked: Iris was no longer broody when I returned her to the coop last Friday. And today she laid an egg! Which is entirely unexpected given the length of her broodiness. According to the eminently wise Gail Damerow and her “Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens,” a hen that’s not broken up until her fourth day of broodiness “may not start laying for about 18 days.”

Iris started going broody the day I left on vacation, and brooded for a week and two days before I came home and moved her to the garden. Which made me expect to wait almost a month for her to return to laying.

But I guess she got right back up on the horse, though her output is paltry compared with her sister Lilac’s characteristically purple offering:

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Funny how sisters from the same clutch lay such different eggs!

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