Still just 1 egg. very odd. They are not breeding. Scouts cycle is not quite the way it should be. Some people are asking about eggbound. Well that's not likely the case. Females that are eggbound are very very sick. It doesnot happen very often in wildbirds. And of course it is very hard to observe such a condition. Egg bound chickens are however common. Very sadly indeed. In the poultry industry chickens are exploited in every way possible and stuffed with hormones to produce eggs. A horrible situation indeed.
I don't think Scout is eggbound. It seems a matter of hormones and wheatherconditions.
that has thrown the cycle off quite a bit. Clutchsize and date of egglaying depends higly on temperature and wheather conditions. This egg is probably not viable. It has not been kept warm, since saterday so the embryo might have died.
The couple is at the scrape daily, so I don not think it is necessary to remove the egg to activate Scout to start laying more eggs. If she lays some more eggs we just have to wait and see what happens. And then again the first egg might hatch anyway.
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