first egg

  1. CannedMonster

    First Egg!!

    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...
  2. MIchickenlady

    Got the first egg today! eggciting!!

    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...
  3. Pam's First Egg?

    Pam's First Egg?

    Here is a grape next to the egg I found
  4. reddpepper86

    When did your chicken start laying?

    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...
  5. NikolasGuy1234

    FIRST EGG FINALLY!

    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.
  6. claire4867

    Egg!!

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

    Second "first" egg!!!

    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...
  8. TheJantons

    Who laid the egg???

    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...
  9. ChickenTater

    First egg! But a little blood?

    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...
  10. J

    Moving coops, varying ages, starting to lay

    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...
  11. C

    Chicken Died Laying First Egg

    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...
  12. P

    New Members from Tampa, FL

    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...
  13. MossyOaks

    Just all around new to chickens/Hens/Eggs

    Hello, I am new to chickens, we got 6 pullets in March. We went with the mandatory 6 chicks from our local feed store. I was very nervous about having what I felt was a lot to start. We started out with 3 Rhode Island's, 2 Australorp, and 1 Leghorn White.. Sadly the leghorn became very smelly...
  14. MageofMist

    Finally a female and my first ever bred quail egg!

    In my first batch, I had all males, and in my second batch I got a male and female and in the 3rd and 4th it looks like I have even more females! I was looking at my community quail pen which houses 9 youngsters, 2 of which are a little bit older, and giving them some millet grass when I noticed...
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