Woke up to find this big female (normal, het for blonde) in the process of laying. She had laid about 6 or 7 but still had a ways to go so I just pushed her nest box back into the cage and left for work. Came home to find a total of 12 good eggs plus one slug. She had also laid one egg outside the nest box last Sunday (9/14). She shedded on 9/5. The egg she laid outside the box is in the incubator. It looks good but seemed a bit misshapen. Every day I look at it and it seems fine. But it was laid several days before the entire clutch. I just assumed it would be infertile. Who knows? Maybe it will hatch. BTW, this is the female in Dusty's book that laid 16 eggs in '06. She was bred with a really nice orange blonde male.

Dusty, thanks for helping me solve this mystery. I've got my hands full with eggs now!

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• More suboc eggs! - MikeMurphy, Thu Sep 18 18:41:36 2008
• RE: More suboc eggs! - RandyWhittington, Fri Sep 19 11:32:57 2008
• RE: More suboc eggs! - dustyrhoads, Fri Sep 19 12:31:29 2008
• RE: More suboc eggs! - MikeMurphy, Fri Sep 19 15:29:12 2008
• RE: More suboc eggs! - lbrat, Sat Sep 20 11:51:29 2008
• IMHO.... - CMSMITH, Sun Sep 21 10:41:30 2008
• RE: IMHO.... - MikeMurphy, Sun Sep 21 20:33:08 2008