MY FIRST EGG!!!...or what's left of it. *UPDATE: I got my replacement!!!*

I was out cleaning the coop thinking "Why are these pine shavings so soggy?"

 Here's my answer. I am so beyond upset right now...so beyond it...

I have waited so long for this egg, or should I say remains of a shell and yolk soaked pine shavings. I also am keeping my chickens against HOA rules just for eggs! Way to start off your laying Pumpkin! What would have been a beautiful, light blue-green EE egg is now a globby mess in the trash. It looked like Pumpkin laid the egg in the nestbox like a good little girl and when she got up, the others went in and started doing the little scratch-and-peck thing, stepping on the egg and burying the evidence with pine shavings for me to stick my hand into later and get a nice suprise. It has, or had, a nice shell and everything but i'm sure 4 fat chickens stepping on it can turn it into a mangled and crushed little thing easily.

 WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Thanks  No egg today but I got another one squatting! They are all following Pumpkin's example now. I'm suprised though becuase Pumpkin (EE) was the first to squat and lay out of my silkie, polish/silkie mutt, and speckled sussex. I'm already wrong because I thought my first egg would be from Snow, my speckled sussex. Now Sandy, my polish mutt, is squatting! She is a major mix. All I know is she has silkie and polish in her so I am very suprised she is squatting so soon! Why is my Sussex not laying yet? Everyone said she would lay at 18-20 weeks probably and she's just about 23 weeks.

That's why I got them! I thought collecting my own eggs would be nice :)

I got another soft-shelled broken one today. I found almost the whole egg shell so I can see she is laying small-medium eggs that are a really pretty light turquoise. At first I thought it was shell-less but then I saw there is definately a very thin shell. Am I doing something wrong? I feed them Purina Layena and normally oyster shell but I ran out and haven't gotten to going to TSC. I also give them cracked corn or button quail eggs as a treat occasionally but my button has been laying shell-less egg for the past week and a half so they haven't gotten the eggs for a while. 

Sandy squatted for me again today so can't wait for an egg from her! I wonder what size they will be. She's medium sized if you compare her to Pumpkin (EE) and Luna (silkie). Pumpkin is a giant and Luna is the smallest thing in the world. The silkies I had last year were so much bigger at 16 weeks than she is at 20!

I'm going to go to TSC tomorrow or Saturday and get some oyster shell. They are stress-free little chickens, too. I haven't moved them lately or anything. I just go and take care of them daily and that has never stressed them out.

My Speckled Sussex started squatting today  Pumpkin set off a chain reaction! The only one not squatting/laying now is my silkie, Luna. That was predictable though.

Thanks! I do cook up the button eggs. I love the color of her eggs, too! I cant wait to get one intact! Maybe Sandy or Snow will lay a nice strong egg as their first egg and show Pumpkin how it's done