Well, my 3 GLW's have been laying for a couple of months and I do get an egg a day, sometimes 2, never 3. My BR is not laying yet, too young I guess and my EE (8 months) enjoys her career as a freeloader. Since it's cold here and the days are short, I have not questioned the one a day egg routine recently. I am checking every nestbox and the thick layer of bedding though just in case Pearl, the EE decides to lay outside a nestbox. Well, yesterday I noticed a bunch of woodshavings on a piece of plywood about 4x3.5 feet that I used as a "false ceiling" section. The chickens roost on a 2x4 about 18 inches in front of it and I use half off the added space to keep a bag of shavings. The bag was opened a bit already but the chickens apparently pecked at it quite a bit. So up the stepstool I go to clean up and - surprise - I find a nest with 7 perfect eggs.....
I should have thought about it, after all, the girls are all over everything.... Oh well, the dogs were happy to get a dish full of scrambled eggs and I now know where to check....Come spring that section of plywood will go out anyway, hve to think how to 'retrain' the culprit though....

