Zorro laid her first egg! I admit, I was getting worried as she has had an “egg bum” for a long time and if she hadn’t laid an egg by tomorrow, she was going to the vet.  I was in the nest box tonight, moving bedding around when I felt something solid in the pine shavings.  Lo and behold, it was an egg!  I am pretty sure that an eggs she lays this time will not be fertile, but I may be surprised.  I guess deep down, I hope I am wrong and all the eggs are fertile, but that just seems highly unlikely since I don’t think they have ever mated.

But since Zorro has been acting very “nesty”, I hope Dweezel will get a clue and start to at least try to mate with her (if he hasn’t already).

Here are some pics:

The egg:

Zorro in the box with her egg:

The happy couple and the egg:

I have to say that I had expected the egg to be much larger, but I guess they are not that big of birds