This weekend, at 23 weeks and 5-6 days old, little Iddy Biddy-bird laid her first egg!! 
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...Not in the nest box, not even in the coop. Naturally, she laid her first egg in the dust bath house I prepared for the hens to use this winter.
So don't mind the dirt.
See how tiny it is?
And here's Biddy this morning (at 24 weeks old exactly), right after I found the egg:
"You wanna make something of it?"
My, my, they sure grow up fast...
e...Not in the nest box, not even in the coop. Naturally, she laid her first egg in the dust bath house I prepared for the hens to use this winter.
So don't mind the dirt.See how tiny it is?
And here's Biddy this morning (at 24 weeks old exactly), right after I found the egg:
"You wanna make something of it?"
My, my, they sure grow up fast...
It really isn't much to see. When we first built our current coop, we built a big, clunky, enclosed nest box structure for just inside. It took up so much space, though, and some of the smaller girls were always falling behind it, so we replaced it. Since I wanted to give them a second food dish outside the coop during this winter and this structure was just lying around without any better use, I put it on its back in the chicken run so the hens could go in and out of it easily. The dusting area is about 4x3 feet and separated by a solid wall from the feed dish area. (And since the old desktop computer isn't registering my camera chip, I guess I'll upload pictures of it later.)
Oh and yes, she is a partridge cochin 
