Our surburban "La Coop D'Etat" is completed

[guncollector]

Hi gang, our second hen has started laying, and its the darker/spotted egg in the upper left corner.

I just wanted to double-check with you experts. Our Welsummer matured faster, and so we only assumed she was laying first. The lighter brown eggs are Welsummer eggs, and the darker/spotted eggs are Black Rock/Sexlink eggs, right?

 

[Farmington]

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I think it's the other way around. Welsummers should lay the darker, speckled egg.

 

[bburn]

I am sorry....you need the ramp. Love the ramps and it makes it look like a chicken coop! My big coop does not have one. The little coop I put up while my DH was out of state working....it does have one and I just like looking at it!

***you don't NEED it....it just looks cool!

 

[guncollector]

Thanks, Farmington, for the input. So...we had it reversed all along...and...

I'm starting to piece together what think has been happening. I think our Welsummer, laid the first darker/speckled egg (see Post#22 in this thread), and within a day or two our Black Rock starting laying the noticeably lighter brown eggs. We wrongly attributed both eggs to our Welsummer who matured soner.

In hindsight, in the PHOTO above, the smaller, darker egg was from the Welsummer, and the larger, light eggs have been coming from the Black Rock.

Right as both hens started laying about 2 weeks back, the Black Rock must have suddenly started "aggressively pecking" our Welsummer...to where she is featherless on her back (I posted about this here asking for help). I think this pecking stressed out the Welsummer to the point where she stopped laying (except for one, weird shell-less egg we found in the coop and couldn't explain at the time).

So yesterday, we applied Pine Tar to our Welsummer's wounds, and I think the desired effect is that maybe she's now being left enough alone to resume her interrupted egg-laying. Because, voila!, this morning a second, dark-speckled egg (like the one in Post #22). Coincidence?