first egg

Hiiii!!! I got a brilliant idea to do an “egg-a-long”. Kind of like a hatch-a-long but just waiting for who lays the first egg! No prize (except an egg!!) but thought it would be fun. I wanted to restrict it to November hatchlings. That way we’re all within a few weeks. Also, posting photos of...

Yesturday my first egg was layed by my pullet, Robin. We had been very excited for the first egg—Especially Robin or her sister, Becky to lay one— because, it’s the FIRST EGG! Who isn’t excited? But also, we wanted it to be Becky or Robin, because the egg would determine if they were Ameraucauna...

I’m so happy! My beautiful EE girl, Robin, layed her first egg! It was cracked and frozen when I found it, but who cares! It’s the first egg! I can’t wait for a non-frozen one that I can eat! :p This is Robin This is her egg!

Hello everyone! Here is our chicken history: we moved from NYC to the country last summer. We found a place with a small barn and decided that putting a horse in it like the last resident was a little too much for us to bite off, but chickens sounded just about right! We ordered 7 chickens...

I'm expecting 1 or 2 of my chickens to lay soon. I entered my pullets' birthdate in a calculator website or something, and it said they would lay around February 14th. One of my EEs, Robin, is now nicknamed, "Loud Mouth" because of how much she loves to 'talk', and it's like one of my Barred...

My red sex link chicken Kurt just layed her first egg ever! I'm so proud of her & my other chicken Dylan is kinda maturing slowly but she's next :) but I'm curious if the eggs are fine or if she's missing some nutrients or anything the egg is brown with white speckled everywhere it's small but I...

Hi everyone! So earlier this week my 21 week old RSL has been squatting. Her comb/wattles have become much more red and her pelvic bones are about 2½ finger widths apart. I put a fake egg in one of their nesting boxes and she has been "rearranging" I guess you could say, ever since. Moving...

YEA! We had been on egg watch for a few weeks - nothing. Then as a practical joke I placed a small purple "Easter Egg" the grandchildren had in their sandbox in the coop. After which, I gave the girls a talking to about their promise to provide breakfast in exchange for food and shelter. I...

Our Golden Sex-Link, Feisty, laid her first egg this morning! :wee:clap:woot She's about 21 weeks old. I'm SO excited! I can't wait till the others lay too. When she went back into the coop, the others (including roo, Hector) and hung around the run until she came back. I wonder if they didn't...

The smallest girl, Tiny, laid the first egg today! Medium size, brown. :wee What an exciting moment to push aside the nest box curtain and see that egg! I knew one of them was up to something when I heard The Egg Song from inside the house! Question?- Its alright if I switch to layer feed now...

Here is a grape next to the egg I found

I know this question has probably been asked a gazillion times over, but I'm curious when everyone's chickens started laying? This is my first time chicken keeping. I have 5 birds, all 18 weeks. 1 Red SL, 1 RIR, 1 GLW, and 2 Ameracaunas. If you have one of these breeds I'd love to know when...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY Most mature girl, lotus, layed her first egg today! i have been waiting for so long and have not been this excited in a good while. Finally!! after 6 and a half months! has anyone else had to wait this long? my girl is a black australorp.

We got a chicken egg!! I'm not sure who laid it, but I'm ecstatic!! (The tiny pinkish brown one on the right!!)

Hello! I got my second first egg today, so fun! I only have two hens so it's easy to tell. The egg on the top is the first egg from my australorp today and the egg on the bottom is from my BR who has been laying for 3 weeks. The australorp egg has a purplish brown color with a heavy white...

I have 7 hens and a rooster, all young, and this is my first time raising chickens. Today I got my first egg from them!!! Only problem is, I can't tell who laid it. I have a 3 younger girls and 4 older ones. The 4 older are 2 EE hens Sunny and Bunny, and then Penelope (Penny) my barred cochin...

Hi everyone! My buff orpington just laid her first egg today! However, I noticed that there was a tiny bit (less than a drop) of- or what looked like -blood on the egg. I checked her vent and didn't notice any redness or blood. I also checked all the rest of my chickens (I have 4 other hens...

This is my first year with chickens. I free range everyone during the day and secure doors on the coop after they have come in for the night. Two hens are aprox 18 wks, the rest of the flock is aprox 14 wks. Rookie mistake- the older ones have shown definite signs of laying for 2wks (very red...

We were gone for the day but in the morning had no indication that our oldest chicken was in any distress. When we came back, we found her dead beside her first egg. She had what looked like an extreme prolapse including her intestines out. There was not a lot of blood showing at all though...

My wife and I have always loved the BYC forum, but for some reason just never signed up. We had our first go round with chickens in our back yard of about a third of an acre for a year about 4 years ago and then had to sell it all when we had to move. After building up the nerve to ask our...