![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Duck plottings
I had been planning on waiting until Ella got broody before I bought some eggs: she's very good about laying indoors, and spent a good month last year trying to hatch a fake egg (until I took it away), whereas Erzulie kept sneaking off into the garden to make nests under bushes, and never really got broody.
It turns out that Erzulie really likes the raised nest box that I made, ready for Ella to use out of the way of the Runners: she started laying in it a bit over a week ago, and she's spent the last couple of days industriously brooding the fake eggs I've been swapping for the last few that she's laid.
So this morning we ordered some eggs, which should be with us by the end of the week. And then we wait.
(Letice is doing much better with the others, now: barely any feather pulling from the grown-ups, which is good.)
It turns out that Erzulie really likes the raised nest box that I made, ready for Ella to use out of the way of the Runners: she started laying in it a bit over a week ago, and she's spent the last couple of days industriously brooding the fake eggs I've been swapping for the last few that she's laid.
So this morning we ordered some eggs, which should be with us by the end of the week. And then we wait.
(Letice is doing much better with the others, now: barely any feather pulling from the grown-ups, which is good.)