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Here are some shots: In my daughter's paint-covered hands In a basket with the other two We're going to blow out the eggs, and put the name of each girl on her first egg- Christmas ornaments!!

Ok, I can elaborate now: The day I originally posted, I had left them locked in the coop- an 8x8' garden shed with a light and quite cushy- and it's just 5 BR, so I thought it couldn't really hurt. I came home to find that indeed, there was a shiny new egg under the roost, which sits a foot...

I got eggs, three in total now. I'm a tickled mommy!! Yay!!

It's been happening at mid-afternoon, when we can't be home- not even this weekend, b/c my sis is getting married (really just a ceremony for the rest of us b/c she eloped)- and as much as I'd rather sit and watch chickens all afternoon...family might not like that. Sadly this means either I...

Perfect...my DD put a couple of peach-colored golf balls DH brought home for her into the boxes, so that might help. So far they've shunned the nest boxes, but I suspected it was because our yard is full of spots that could yield privacy and coziness. Thanks for all of your help! I'll keep...

Do they ever start this operatic ba-BOOOCK stuff before they are actually layers? Is it something she could be doing that isn't really about an egg hiding in my yard? Am I possibly too expectant? Also, if one locks the birds in where the nest boxes are during the time they start to lay, will...

Saturday our point-of-lay 21 week-old BR started crowing like she'd been peeled. DDs and I dashed out earnestly anticipating our first egg, but were disappointed to see Moe standing on the patio braying like a donkey. No egg there... We looked in the nesting boxes, alas, disappointed. It's a...