Continuing saga of Rosie and her egg(s)

It's been a few weeks now since our last update about Rosie's first egg laying experience. Well the first egg didn't make it. :-( We put the egg in a home-made nesting box but Rosie broke it within the first couple of days.

Then two weeks later, on Dec 30, she layed another egg..... AND then three days after that (Jan 2) she layed a second egg. She has now been sitting on both eggs for a week to week and a half and both eggs are doing find. :-) At this time we don't know if they are fertile and time will tell. We have not done the candle test on them - we will just wait to see if they hatch at the end of January when she has set on them for 28 days. We won't be peeking in the nesting box - our clue that the babies have hatched will be Rosie's increased consumption of food.

I'll update you later this month!

Elena
Beaker's co-flock leader