Well. Since my last post on 11th April things have been going very smoothly. Egg production has been excellent averaging around 19 per week. Not bad for three chickens, We had one glorious run of 21 days with 3 every day and a rather large blue egg (pic above) to match our large brown one - not quite so big but impressive nonetheless Marvellous! To date we've had around 380 cracking eggs.
Then on Sunday our blue egg layer (the Heritage skyline for the officionados) didn't lay. Nothing unusual there. But it happened again on Mon & Tuesday. I called Kirsty our specialist who said that it happens now and again. Yesterday she was clearly looking for somewhere to lay but nothing was forthcoming. (The other two were laying as normal).
This morning we found her dead - literally fallen off her perch. An ex-chicken etc etc. After the initial shock we contacted Kirsty again. She had a stuck egg (the chicken not Kirsty). Apparently its not uncommon but what a way to go! The other two are fine. It's our first major hurdle and one which our poor chicken couldn't get over... We're looking into the causes and how to avoid again...
