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Congrats! The nest box use will come!

Congratulations - that is a lovely first egg! As to the location, don't worry about that - the first eggs are often found in odd places, it takes a bit for them to figure out the whole process. You can help by assuring the nest boxes are inviting (to a chicken) and easily asccessible...

Outstanding! It's always such a special day when you start getting a new egg - especially a pretty one like that!

Congrats!!!!!

If you are referring to the little one that is what is commonly called a fairy egg, wind egg or even fart egg. They frequently lack yolks and can occur throughout a hens productive life

Pullets approaching production will often go all sorts of wonky in the days/weeks leading up to that first egg -- this may have been the beginnings of her trial runs, or you may find an egg later today/tomorrow morning in an odd place as many times they will do a whole lot of nesting but then...

As with all things related to keeping poultry, there is a range of opinions on the matter - the best thing to do is to do your own reading and then decide for yourself what is right for you and your flock. The biggest risk is in relation to use of them in brooders as this is generally a time...

The issue raised above is that the shavings in question are cedar - not that they are shavings. The concern with cedar shavings are oils in cedar that can have the potential of negative respiratory impacts for poultry. Many folks do use it and say they see no negative effects, I don't see any...

Woo-hoo - here's to many more to come! What a pretty egg - congrats!

Way to go, Gladys!!!!!

Looks like your Easter Egger is actually more of an Olive Egger....same idea, just different shades of eggs. If you ever want t mess with your girls there are ways to create actual "green eggs" - I found a few different methods a while back and posted the links on a similar thread somewhere...

Looks like you have an Olive Egger (hybrid that is a cross between a blue egg laying breed and a dark laying breed such as a Marans) in your midst --- if you post photos of your flock we can probably help you figure out who it is.

Congratulations!!! What a lovely, perfect little egg - here's to many, many more to come!

Yep - people often have a similar reaction to non-factory raised chicken meat. They are surprised by the taste and want to know why it tastes so funny/bad/strong/etc --- well, because it tastes like chicken

Are these the first eggs for your flock - or just for this bird? I ask because while I have never noticed any difference in pullet vs. hen eggs, a lot of folks are surprised by the "eggy" taste of farm eggs vs. commercial/store eggs

There is nothing unusual at all about your situation - your birds are only just beginning to lay, so their systems are just figuring out how to produce an egg - this means that they may lay in starts and stops - also, not all the birds will begin to lay at the same time. Just as with humans...

How did you take the picture? I can't get the color of my EE eggs to come out in pictures.............

Yay - and they will get bigger!

Don't leave real eggs in the nest - it runs the risk of breakage (accidental or purposeful) which, at it's best, leads to a gross nest box and, at it's worst, runs the risk of birds developing a taste for raw eggs which can create an egg eating habit in your flock.

YAY!!!!! So glad your wait for the first is now over! Now, for the wait for the second - or the first from the next layer, lol..........always something to wait on.