Another quick one today as not very much has happened, however...
I've mentioned before that we have a freeloader in the garden - Bridie the Bantam. She is very pretty and very small and we really don't know where she came from, but she has decided to stay, just not in the chicken run. She idolises Dummer the huge Light Sussex, and runs away from the rest. She can be very noisy, particularly when she wants food or water. But she doesn't believe in sharing.
I posted her broody moment when she found a high shelf and spent the best part of 2 weeks trying to hatch infertile eggs - she gave up after she had thrown most of them on the floor when trying to get down to ground level for food or back onto the shelf for brooding on her eggs.
She knows that we know about the shelf so she stopped using it. She may also have had a little break from laying. But after a while nature says she would start again, so where are the eggs this time? Last night as I was putting the big chickens back into their run after their daily vandalism/slug and snail eating foray, I spotted the new stash point - carefully (or not so carefully) hidden in the shade of an artichoke plant.
She may stop using that nest, as this afternoon I nicked the whole stash to make banana bread. But honestly, we feed her, so she should feed us occasionally!
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