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I ended up leaving everyone in the run for the last few days, because it was too hard to only lock up the one girl. After 4 days of being locked up and still no egg from her, finally today she laid! In the nesting box, and a nice dark colour to boot - yippee!! So maybe her system just needed to...

Yes, they free range for part of most days, over our 1/3 acre backyard. I wondered if she might be laying somewhere else, but so far I haven't been able to find anything - I've checked inside the cedar hedges, inside plant pots, in the wood pile, in the garden beds, etc.

That's interesting - I had heard the opposite! :) At any rate, it's been 8 days since I've seen an egg. They have free access to oyster shell, although I haven't seen her use it. I've taken her over the the feeder to make sure she knows it's there, and I'm sure she sees the others use it.

I need some help solving an egg mystery... My Silver Salmon Marans seems to not be laying, and I can't figure out what is going on. Here is her history: Day 1, March 21 - she laid her very first egg, in the nesting box like a good girl! Day 2 - she spent time in the nesting box, then came out...