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Oh, and look at this beautiful "second egg" I got today from my brahma:

Congratulations! It's beautiful! My last two holdouts started laying this past week - at 10 months!

I got a bunch of free pumpkins for the chickens, from around the neighborhood, and they were not that impressed. What can I say, I have picky chickens.

Congratulations! That's an accomplishment for the shortest day of the year! I've pretty much resigned myself to waiting until Spring for my remaining three 8-month olds to start laying. The one who started in November is reliably laying 3-4 days in a row, which is about the same as my red star...

Little Grace is laying well - she even laid one day more in row than my red star last week. And having a second layer is making a world of difference in my egg count. I feel like I'm getting enough now, even without artificial light. But, I'm still waiting on the other three 7-month-olds to...

Putting the first egg to good use!

That's my assumption! I'm pretty sure the other 3 will be brown-egg layers, and she is the only one really squatting. I gave her the "today you are a woman" speech.

My little Grace laid her first egg today!! At 29 weeks, and she's the first of the bunch. I knew something was up today because there was a whole chicken chorus going on in the coop. I was trying to meet a work deadline, so I chose to mostly ignore it, after the first uneventful check-in...

Jabina, I don't think you need to switch to crumbles. My hens took a little time to get used to pellets, but they caught on, and there's less waste than with crumbles. Thanks for the advice everyone - I've chosen to not do artificial light and to take what I get. My red star is still laying...

How do you provide your oyster shells? I've kept mine in a bowl in the coop (separate from their feed), but I don't get the impression that they actually eat it. I was told to leave it out for free choice, but maybe I should put it directly in the feeder? Or pick a better spot? It's...

I have four 6.5 month old hens who haven't started laying either. Luckily I have one adult red star who is a regular layer, or else I would start to wonder if eggs really came form chickens after all! Except for a dark brahma, the other young ladies are bantam mutts, including a marans, a...