FIRST EGGS!!!!

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Originally Posted by criddle76 

We got our first eggs 2 yesterdsy & 2 more this morning.. waho!!! im so excited and proud of my girks, i called everybody in the fam up to tell them hehe!! 

congratualations, so happy for you ....

It's like a birthday isn't it!? Congrats!

yahoo yay!!!! i'm glad all you chicken folks are happy too!!! my family is tired of me posting chicken pictures on FB hahaha it's worse than when my boys were little and i gave them pictures every Christmas...ohhh gosh i have a gag gift idea brewin  he he! Pictures of your first eggs?? I ate mine already within an hour of it being layed yesterday!!!

Julie

Yay! My Easter Eggers (Grace, Sally, and Breta, purchased March 7th) finally laid their first (very small) blue eggs - 2 of them - on Saturday, August 4th. Both were laid on top of the nesting boxes (broken). The next day my 3rd girl laid an undersized green egg in the nesting box, but it was so thin shelled it broke, too (looked as though she kicked it into the back of the box). Nothing yesterday. Today - another undersized blue egg! Not broken this time.

And I have so far found 7 eggs from my ducks (Dixie and Daisy) laid in various parts of my yard (they free range around the front 2+ acres). I wasn't expecting eggs from them - they aren't even 5 mos. old yet. I found one this morning next one of the chicken tractors (it wasn't there last night when I closed it up), one this evening next to the coop again, and another one of the ladies laid right in front of me - missing 1/3 of the shell, but the membrane was intact. The others were scattered across the back yard. I don't know if they are safe to eat - they've been out in 90 degree weather during the day and 60 degree nights. I don't think I'll chance eating them but I will be keeping a better eye out for them now.
 

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Originally Posted by gaitngirl 

Yay! My Easter Eggers (Grace, Sally, and Breta, purchased March 7th) finally laid their first (very small) blue eggs - 2 of them - on Saturday, August 4th. Both were laid on top of the nesting boxes (broken). The next day my 3rd girl laid an undersized green egg in the nesting box, but it was so thin shelled it broke, too (looked as though she kicked it into the back of the box). Nothing yesterday. Today - another undersized blue egg! Not broken this time.

 

And I have so far found 7 eggs from my ducks (Dixie and Daisy) laid in various parts of my yard (they free range around the front 2+ acres). I wasn't expecting eggs from them - they aren't even 5 mos. old yet. I found one this morning next one of the chicken tractors (it wasn't there last night when I closed it up), one this evening next to the coop again, and another one of the ladies laid right in front of me - missing 1/3 of the shell, but the membrane was intact. The others were scattered across the back yard. I don't know if they are safe to eat - they've been out in 90 degree weather during the day and 60 degree nights. I don't think I'll chance eating them but I will be keeping a better eye out for them now.
 

Congrats!!!! Very Cool Blue Eggs!! Sounds like your girls are kicking it into gear!! We got our first egg Saturday too, it was about the size of a grade large with a soft deformed shell and no eggs since   At least we now have 5 girls squatting and a week ago it was only one, so things are happening, were just waiting to kick it into gear also, and work out all these kinks!!! It is gonna be over a hundred every day this week here in Boise...... today was 106 degrees, so I totally understand if the girls need a little more time, they are only 17 and 18 weeks old some born Palm Sunday and some born Easter Sunday, we will have all brown eggs so I think it's really cool you got blues on the way  Oh and congrats to Dixie and Daisy too!!! We had ducks as kids and they layed really rich eggs, they made the best cakes and baked goods!