It's egg laying time

[Catherine]

I have come home to yet another clutch of eggs. This time it is Kateri, one of my younger females. She did a beautiful job of laying eggs.



You can see she is resting around the eggs protectively. They don't stay with them long, but all my girls like to sit with them for a while.





Here they are in an egg box ready for the incubator. The dark stuff is clean peat moss. I hold moisture and it doesn't mold to easily. If the eggs get moldy they will not survive.
This time there are 13.

I sure would like a day off.