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CONGRATS @daxigait !!! I don't have any RIRs but of the three different breeds that I do have laying, I noticed that the color (not to mention the size) varied quite a bit during the first couple of weeks of laying. They now have settled into a look that helps me identify who laid each day...

All you had to do was post a complaint of sorts on BYC! CONGRATULATIONS! My white rock laid her first egg yesterday, at 22 weeks and 1 day. That means 2 of 7 are earning their keep. Exciting times!

I have a 22-week old Light Brahma that doesn't look like she will lay in this lifetime. Though, interestingly enough, she avails herself of the free-offered oyster shell at every opportunity it seems. Congrats on your Brahma egg! You would think they could lay a larger egg given their size - but...

Unless your hand is tiny - that's a nice size first egg!

I don't think the shorter days help any! They are teaching you patience... :)

Ooh - I see a pretty, pretty egg basket in your future!

I didn't hear the egg song until the day after the first egg appeared. Ran out expectantly - FALSE ALARM. They know how to keep us guessing!

I feel a bit like someone who has just learned she is pregnant posting to an infertility forum. BUT. 1 day short of 21 weeks, my Dominque gave me a tiny but perfect pale brown egg this afternoon. No egg song but she's been squatting for the better part of a month. It only weighed 33 grams (less...

That is a heavenly shade of blue. Wow!

H O O R A Y ! And that egg is beautiful!!! I'm so excited/eggcited for you! Nothing going on here. 4 out of 7 squat now but still no egg songs and I haven't caught anyone actually sitting in a nesting box. They weren't even rearranging the straw (which I suspect they do from outside the boxes)...

Good luck! My Dom has been squatting for over 2 weeks - now it's almost *obscene* she sticks her butt so high in the air. Lol! And someone has been going into one of the nesting boxes and rearranging the straw. But nada. Every morning I dash outside to check and they are all in the run...

Yippee! What a cute egg!!!

Congrats @ChickenRehab and @srhmchlk! Good job, chicken mamas - think of all the planning, love, and good care on your part that went into those lovely and undoubtedly delicious eggs!

My Dominique has been squatting when I reach for her for a week or so - but starting a couple of days ago, it's almost constant and she lifts up her wings and sticks her butt out. In fact today she hopped in the tub of sand and sphagnum moss I have set up for their dirt baths and assumed and...

Ok, now you are just making all us newbies waiting for eggs insanely JEALOUS. Seriously - those are beauts!

My 17-week-old minxes are a ways off yet. I have 2 EEs and 1 each Lt Brahma, Australorp, GLW, White Rock, and Dominique. No squatting except occasionally from the Dom (and she may simply be eluding my petting but she did lift up her wings at the same time a time or two). No egg song practice...

Argh! Here is my BA at 16 weeks. With that tiny pink comb and those wee wattles, I think she's gonna be one of the 6-month layers. Oh, well - ! She is a sweetheart.

Do goannas (lizards, I think - we don't have them here) eat the eggs then? Ugh! Frustrating!

Oooh, pretty, Val! I'm jealous!

My 7 are about the same age as yours - they'll be 16 weeks on Monday (8/24). And I have a few nice red faces, too - but their combs and wattles are not impressive and they are not squatting for me. ***SIGH***. Oh, well - ! I am going to open up the nesting boxes next week and hopefully that will...