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Egg Laid 4 Days Apart

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B2 layed her 4th egg today but her 3rd egg was laid on Sunday so i was suprised to see a egg. i thought that eggs where laid 2 days apart so was i wrong in assuming that.

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It was a big surprise, but since sunday she has been in the nestbox and has not been letting the male near her so would the egg be fertile.

The hen I have nesting now always seems to lay the last one three days apart! Maybe sometimes it just takes a while to work up to the next one, I take it as a sign that she is running out of egg laying steam and that she needs a rest from laying after that clutch.

Could she perhaps have been eggbound for those two days then managed to pass the egg?

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She never showed any signs of being eggbounded, normal poos and very relaxed in her nestbox. Maybe like MB's hen she was probably having a rest.

- Could also have been that there was delays in the mating too ......

Regardless of the reason... Congratulations on egg number 4!!! :blink:

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