Those of you who knew my EEs were boys got confirmation today. This one crowed today: 
I saw suspicious feathers on him last night and wanted to get a closer look this morning but my son let them out before I got there (late getting to them because I wanted hubby's help with something out there but I had to help him with something first - too much to get done before it get's hot). He decided to tell me himself that he's a boy. Had the other (younger) one crowing for a week already.
I've got 2 EE cockerels and 1 EE pullet.
I bought the pullet knowing that she "should be laying in the next couple of weeks" and sure enough, 2 1/2 weeks after I got her, Snowy gave me these:
There is a slight bluish tint to them. I found them on the floor. Then Snowy was sitting and moving bedding around where I found one of the eggs and sure enough when I went out again an hour later, there was another one. The two above the ruler are the found ones, and the one below is the one that came still warm. I wonder about eating the first two because we've been having 100 degree temps and they would have been laid Monday and Tuesday. Anyone know if in this heat if two day old eggs are still safe for consumption? (Also, do you think there's a chance of them being fertile already? Hubby asked that and I didn't know. I saw a roo jump on her but the back ends didn't look close enough to fertilize (IYKWIM). He was trying to dominate not procreate. I don't have an incubator so I can't try, besides, with the egg being so small, I doubt they'd be good for the chick to hatch from (like trying to hatch a double yolker - not enough room to properly grow). Hubby really didn't want to hatch anyway - I also don't know if he has any "funny" ideas about eating fertilized eggs. My 8 yr old son on the other hand didn't want me to fridgerate them - HE wants them to hatch. LOL Did find out that DH doesn't want to know when we're eating chicken for supper if that chicken was previously running around in our backyard and not a store-bought one.)
I put plastic eggs in the nest boxes so hopefully she'll know where I want them. She's still spending time in the "quarantine" room even though I've freed her from quarantine this weekend. She is at the bottom of the pecking order and won't sleep up on the roost with the other chickens yet. I may shut the door with her out of the Q-room so she's forced to pick a different place to lay her eggs. If she doesn't want the roost yet, she can take a nest box until she's comfortable with the other girls. I'll wait until tomorrow to lock her out so she can still get a good night's sleep and maybe get to know the other girls a little more but do it before she lays the next egg so she has to choose a new place.
CG
I would LOVE to send my husband to a farm when he acts up. 
