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| On the left: Taffy and her very obvious nest. On the right: Taffy looking huffy in her sanctioned nest. Photography by F L Campbell |
Bush eggs: none. Nest box eggs: none. Feed hopper: three-quarters full.
No eggs from the other hens lately, I see. Makes me feel a bit better about my own lack of ovoid production. That Taffy (one of the hybrid layers I was discussing earlier) was a great one for laying, and a great one for secret nests too. The problem was she was so good at laying that eggs would spill out of her secret nest, down the hill, and practically form an arrow to where the secret nest was. This didn’t happen the once either. Nope, every time; too many eggs and cover blown. Dead keen to be a mother as well, but whenever The Female Person shifted her to a safe nest and limited her number of eggs (from about eighteen, to say, a very reasonable six) she would go all huffy and walk straight off the new nest and have nothing more to do with it. Died with her morals intact but childless.
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