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Yes! I am much better off to maintain my delusion that those chicks think I am the best mama they could ever have dreamed of! ;) I'll just chalk this little incident up as being akin to teenagers throwing their socks under the bed rather than in the hamper...

I swear! Now I feel like they aren't just singing to me when I come in the coop - they've been taunting me (and probably telling each other jokes about me in chicken speak)! If an egg is (or may be) fertilized, how soon does it need to be refrigerated to ensure it doesn't start to develop?

So, I'm such a fool! That first egg I found was just over a week ago. Every day since then, I have found an egg except for one day. I had some plastic Easter eggs on hand, so I put 2 in each of their nesting boxes. That girl has continued to lay faithfully in the box other than once I found an...

Thank you so much! I hadn't thought about them eating the eggs. I will get fake eggs and get them out. I can't even believe how exciting this is LOL

I'm SO excited! Our flock is 19 weeks old, and for the past 3 days, one of the leghorns has laid an egg each day! She laid the first one at the door of their coop (their coop is only temporary, it's an old shed) on Thursday. Then Friday she laid one around the corner of the building. So, I...