first lay

There was a teeny tiny egg in the coop this morning! All our birds are young and we only have one bird, an Ameraucana, who’s been laying for about a week. Her first egg was 33 grams and her third/most recent is 41g. The tiny egg is 9 grams!!! It’s smaller than a quail egg! This egg is brown...

Our little lady hatched around December 18 laid her first egg today! She’s a blue Ameraucana, we’re still waiting on our salmon Faverolles, followed by a bunch of younger girls starting with a Houdan next month. We have a fully mixed flock so the lay dates are all over the place. The big girls...

Beyond Excited Right Now!!!! we officially have our first egg!!!!!! Sadly we found it on the ground and not in the nesting boxes. Any suggestions on how to teach them to use the boxes? We already have the dummy eggs so I’m not sure what else can be done. Still I’m BEYOND excited to how many...

Hey everyone!! So I was just out feeding my 8 chickens, 6 black australorps (hens), 1 black jersey giant (hen) and 1 salmon faverolle (rooster), and couldn’t find one of the hens. I told my hubby to check the coop, we haven’t put in the 4 best boxes yet as we weren’t expecting the girls to lay...

My Hen Morty laid her first egg. I've never raised chickens so this was all new to me! Before she laid her egg, I notice she was more chattier than usual. She would pace around trying to find a nook to lay her egg. She laid her first egg on top of this small storage cube I keep outside. Luckily...