The ladies have been laying happily for almost a month now. Everyone is on board except Mackles the Minorca. She is doing her little squats at my feet but none of her large white eggs have appeared. Quackers the Khaki Campbell duck hasn't taken a day off laying yet- amazing! The Rhode Island Red Chicks have gone to their new home. Dandy is enjoying being without the responsibility of chicks and is sporting a fuller hairdo.
A surprise in the nesting box yesterday. Penny the bantam Plymouth Rock has gone broody for the first time. It will be interesting whether she will be a good sitter and mother. She is a different broody to the silky or Wyandotte. Very fluffed up and screeches just like a seagull when you take away the eggs. No pecking at my hand but she must appear scary to the other ladies. I found them bunched up at the farthest end of the roosting post tonight.
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