I now have 2 laying hens. Came home from work yesterday and check the coop I found my one egg in the usual spot, in her nest by the food dish, than a second egg in the actual nest box!
I got my 2nd egg yesterday. I came home from the store and heard my girl hollering and thought something was bothering them. I ran back there and discovered she was just doing the egg song and about 20 minutes later I found an egg.
The left egg is yesterday's egg right is Sunday's egg.
I'm being patient. Got one more egg today, probably by the same chicken, one of my Delawares. It's well worth the wait in my opinion I am having fun just hanging out with them.
My girl laid her first egg Sunday and nothing since than. It takes them some time to start reliably laying eggs. No worries she will start laying again in no time.
I have 9 girls who are all around 6 months old. I got 1 egg so far on Sunday by one of my Delawares but nothing from my other girls and no more eggs since the one I got Sunday evening. So I guess I am still playing the waiting game too. I have 5 buff Brahmas, 3 Delawares, and 1 gold laced...
I went to check my girls yesterday evening and low and behold in the middle of the coop was my first beautiful egg.
The picture is my egg compared to a store bought large egg. I believe this was possibly laid by one of my Delawares.
I have 9 hens roughly 5 months old (5 Brahmas, 3 Delawares and 1 cochin) everyone had a pretty good molt and seem to have recovered well however I have one brahma who still hasn't grown back her tail feathers and I notice a little blood on one feather.
It looks like it is slowly starting to...