Nora Batty lays egg.........

Martin · Nora Batty lays egg.........

let joy be unconfined! Nora Batty has today presented us with her first egg...........

Nora (so-called because of her feathered legs/feet, which bear a more than passing resemblance to her namesake's droopy stockings), rather than heading out this morning, stayed in the nest box - an hour or so later, she popped out, leaving behind our first egg from this flock (of 7)
This undoubtedly proves "the law of sod" - they are now circa 20 weeks old, and as we aren't giving them supplementary lighting, it was a toss up if they'd come into lay now, or leave it until spring....... last night I was given a tray of pullets' eggs, this morning....... (but I'm not complaining)

Maria

Awww bless.

Smooth Hound

love her name

Martin

And here's her home, featured in this week's unofficial (and still unfinished) internet "Grand Designs"

http://my.opera.com/brosville/blog/

featuring a stack of ply offcuts, some "end of line" fabric "seconds", and boot-sale paint...... the ply was a freebie, and came with an "it's marine ply" comment - a short while before the "under construction" photo was taken, I left a couple of small offcuts out overnight, during which it rained........

The waterproofing was the same method I've used on boats - slap a good thick coat of paint on, then apply canvas-like material tightly (lots of drawing pins, swearing and fruit-oil soaked rags to clean paint off hands - then slap on another thick coat of paint..........

There's now 2 of them laying!