Jem. my Rhode Rock has always been the most shy of my three chickens. Always the last to eat, she hangs behind the other two. Yesterday, however, her personality changed! Instead of coming out to see what was for breakfast with Lily and Mariella she stayed inside the coop. I opened up the laying box to investigate and found her refusing to move from Lily's egg! It wasn't even her own. She then refused to move from Mariella's egg and finally her own. She was the happy mother of three little eggs! I decided to don a leather glove and pull my sleeve down and take the eggs. She wasn't a happy chicken and kicked up a fuss, pecking me and clucking noisily. Then she came out to have a peck around and a bit of lettuce. Again this morning she refused to move from Mariella's egg. I'm not sure what to do, I might slip a nice round suitable stone under her to sit on, that might keep her happy until she realises she isn't going to get any babies!
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