Beautiful! 
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I love that!
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Cant remember if I put pics of these two monsters, laid by Colette and Beryl respectively. 102g and 103g.
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I love both!!
Update from our chook house! We lost one of the chicks we bought (the Sussex tricolour) when we went away in the summer as she’d got caught in a bit of the fence and my neighbour didn’t find her until evening. Shed passed by next morning. They hit 20 weeks in the Autumn and no eggs, our neighbours dad said they will probably not start until mid January when the light starts increasing. Much to our surprise one of the marans (there is a grey and a splash) laid this today! So pleased! I thought the colour may be much less than the black we’ve had previously but at think its about an 8 in the scale!
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Wonderful! I thought mine wouldn’t lay until January (for the same reason) but they started before Christmas too 
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My azur (from Jardilans after the weasal murder) has stopped laying for the last couple of week, Mabel the Sussex is still going strong (purchased same day as per early posts in this thread). We get around 5 per week.
How old are they?
This time last year they were pretty much the age yours are now, they didn’t lay for about a month just recently because they were moulting, but they are mostly laying again now.
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Our Orpington girls are almost 4yrs old now, and their first lay in 2023 was 22nd January. This year two of them look almost ready to lay, (eating grass and more grit, red combs etc), but nothing yet.
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Everyone now seems to be laying except for our Azur who is still on strike! The one egg we managed to hatch after weasel’geddon was a normal pale brown / beige color but she is also laying olive eggs so we have 2 carrying on the breeding I did which is great! I’ve even got enough to sell to friends so will soon cover feed costs 
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Poor Miss Bardot, our Azur has vent gleet, basically hen thrush. According the the UK Hen welfare trust I need to give her Epsom salt bath and apply canestan. Has anyone else had this? Did you manage to treat it and if so how? God it stinks 
None of my hens has had anything like that, so no useful tips from me I’m afraid - just sympathy and I wish you good luck sorting it and a speedy recovery for poor miss Bardot.
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Thanks Vero, I’m sooo looking forward to it in the morning!
Bless her she was so good! She seemed to enjoy it, didn’t quite fall asleep as the web article suggested she might but was very relaxed. She really is in s state, I’m upset I hadn’t noticed it earlier, although not sure how quickly these things come on.
I also took the opportunity to do her legs and feet with Vaseline and TT oil and some ivermectin to help her slight scaley leg mites. When I was a novice hen keeper I bought some silkies I didn’t realise had it 
. They have been dead for years but I’ve never totally eradicated the mites!
Another bath snd canestan tomorrow, then I won’t have a chance until Wednesday. Really hope it works.
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Try mixing some natural yoghurt into her feed too, yeast infections can go from mouth to bum.
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Oh thanks for the reminder, I did read that but forgot in my panic to get her treated! Too late now, I’ll get hubby to give them some in the morning. Do you have chooks as well?
I did the 2nd bath and cream. She was less smelly then yesterday but still in s state 