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Scraps laid a beautiful egg! All is well.

Thanks, Gallo del Cielo! I'm going out to check for eggs now...pardon my paranoia!

Eleanor and Scraps are being SO noisy today. We've had an egg from each of them now, and Scraps (New Hampshire) behaved much this way yesterday before she laid--running up and down in and out of the coop, making a nesty shape inside, ba-gawk!ing a lot. But they've both been doing it for about...

Quote: You got that right! I'm still smiling, hours later!

Quote: I wondered if our girls would be laying "real" eggs yet as the previous owners said they'd been laying for a little while already...turns out, yes, so far! Very excited about this and trying to contain myself...but I can't stop smiling!

Quote: I did indeed! Can't wait for my husband to get home...I called him and he was so excited, he sounded like a little kid. Yay egg!

Just over twenty-four hours as a chicken mama and I found my first egg! Got home from work tonight and the girls were cozied up together in their coop. I checked on them with a flashlight, and I couldn't believe it when I saw what was lying next to Eleanor (our Brahma), all brown and smooth and...

Thanks everyone! Glad to be here!

Thanks for the warm welcomes, everyone! ArizonaChicken, I just started shooting and shooting and shooting in the late afternoon when the sun was slanting nicely into the run, then picked the best!

Hi, everyone! I'm honeycake, and I live in Arizona with my husband, our two dogs, and, as of yesterday, two hens: a New Hampshire Red (Scraps) and a Dark Brahma (Eleanor Roosevelt). Some friends are moving out of state and couldn't take their flock, so these two girls came to live with us...

Two hens joined our family yesterday and so I decided that I might as well stop lurking and join the forum already. So...hi! Let me introduce my girls: This is Scraps, our New Hampshire Red. And this is Eleanor Roosevelt, our Dark Brahma. Our family also includes a shepherd/lab mix, a...