A little over a month ago, Bunny went broody. That is what you call a chicken that wants to sit on eggs and hatch them. I think it was triggered from us not collecting the eggs for 2 days and with 5 chickens laying, there were a lot of eggs in there. What ever it was that caused it (she was not yet 6 months old and has only been laying for a month and a half, which I thought was very early to go broody) she only wanted to sit in the nest box, all the time. I would take her out. When she tried to sleep in there, I blocked it off for the night. After a few days of this, she stopped trying to sit in the nest box all the time, but she had stopped laying.
5 weeks have gone by, but a couple of days ago, I found a gigantic pale green egg in the nest box. We ate it today, it was a double yolkier.
Welcome back Bunny to the egg laying world, we missed you!
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When I first read this headline I thought it said "Bunny started laughing again". Well the joke was on me when I got to the end! I really wondered how a chicken would laugh. ;-)
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