Megachuck has finally started laying, but only tiny eggs. She may well be a chicken bred for meat rather than laying, given her size and tiny eggs. The one on the left is from Astro or Notso (renamed from Stupid as she's been showing a lot of enterprise, especially in catfood-stealing), and the one on the right is Mega's.
A good day's clutch: two and a half eggs!
But then Mega must have decided under the tree just wasn't good enough. I spent a day chasing her off our sofa on the decking before I realised this was where she had picked for nesting. So we put a sheet over the sofa and watched what happened:
A lot of fuss and bother later (and much tiptoe-ing around not to disturb her), and we were the proud new owners of ... a tiny egg.
Here it is in close-up (in case you missed it in the pic above)
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