a little nest of eggs

For reasons best known to themselves, the girls have decided that the nest boxes in which they used to lay their eggs are no longer suitable, and they have begun laying their eggs in a nest they have fashioned in a corner of the chookery. It took us a bout a week (and 33 eggs) to actually find this new laying site - I was convinced they had gone off the lay following the untimely death of one of their sisters. Anyway, my colleagues who buy eggs from me are happier now that egg production is back to near normal levels.