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I just found a THIRD egg! This one is darker than the other two and the same size as the second. The first two eggs now look very close to the same color so maybe they were laid by the same chicken but the bloom needed to finish drying on the 2nd. The 3rd egg is clearly from a different chicken...

Oh I hope so! Both of the shells are plenty hard, so I wonder if I need to break out the oyster shell or if I should wait until they are all laying. They've been eating lots of alfalfa and throw-away greens from the grocery store so they are getting extra calcium that way.

I have eight 21-week-old pullets. Three of them look fully mature (2 BRs and a SLW) and I've been waiting on eggs! This morning I found their first egg in the nest box when I let the girls out at 8 am. It was cool, and dh said he could have missed seeing it when he locked them up last night, so...