19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

[Rhoise]

My Barred Rock, Eagle Eye is 19.5 weeks old. She laid her first egg about 10:30 a.m. on 8/9/12 and her second at 11:50 a.m. on 8/10/12. I am wondering if the other 15 girls might be hiding some....

L-R Store bought large, Eagle's first egg, Eagle's second egg.

AWESOME EGGS AND AWESOME COLORS!!!!

 

[Rhoise]

We are finally getting EGGS! They started slow and we are getting five to six a day. I go check first thing after work everyday! I have around 20 that still haven't started.

CONGRATS!!!!!

 

[Rhoise]

We got 2 eggs today!!! Not sure just who laid it, but I don't care. This one was in the nest box too. I have a suspicion that one of them is laying near the hen house,but I can't find her dugout yet. I can't wait till the kids get home and I can tell them!

YAY!!!!! WONDERFUL!!!!! PICTURES?

 

[TnMama]

Oh Wow,Lapeerian! I'd have been in tears. I truly feel bad for you. Positive, THEY"RE LAYING!

Marlo1968, your eggs are so purdy. I'm sure the day one of my EE's lay I'll be calling and texting everybody like I did w the first one. I may have missed it,but when were yours hatched?

We got another egg today from #2 layer. Since the egg is white,I'm assuming it'f from my black minorca,Sydney. My RIR is still playing the false Laybor game. I have golf balls in 2 of them and 2 plastic eggs with a rock for weight in the other 2 boxes


The 2 eggs on the left are from the same pullet. The one on the right is from Tink,our first layer. Youngest child and I worked in the hen house a bit today. We fluffed up the bottom layer of poo and shavings, added a fresh layer over it, and made sure there's plenty shavings in the boxes {5 gallon buckets}. I figured if we did a little work, they would return the favor. I honestly check for eggs like 3 or 4x's a day. The light makes the 2 same hen ones diff colors,but t's the same layer.Her eggs are longer and more oval than Tinks. {the ones in the carton are from Kroger}

 

[bruceha2000]

Something is painful about buying chicken feed and then buying eggs from the grocery store.

Just don't do it on the same day and buy the eggs before the feed. Might hurt just a LITTLE bit less.

 

[Edwards24]

Well my 8 are 20 weeks. Last Saturday I got a small olive colored egg presumably from one of the E.E. Sunday another olive colored egg. Both in the coop. Monday I found a larger egg laying in the yard but it had no shell. Pretty much a membrane w/ a yoke. Nothing else since. I'm a little baffled? When I get home and turn them out usually around 5 pm a couple of the girls will stray off on there own into the woods. I'm thinking they me be laying out there???Any thoughts?

I used to let mine out late in the evening around the same time you did. I started getting up and letting them out of a morning and have noticed I am getting more eggs. My hens seem to like the privacy and will go back in the coop once all of the other chickens have started their daily foraging to lay. I also took an old blanket and but it up and covered the front of the nest boxes with a slit in it so that they would have it dark in the nest box.

 

[blondiebee181]

RIR, Ginger started squatting today!

 

[Lapeerian]

Counted all the eggs in the clutch as I placed them in a water bucket, final count is 63! I did the water test tonight and carefully swished them around, no floaters! Chickies are going to have 60 scrambled eggs this weekend! On a happier exciting note, I found 2 new perfect brown eggs in the temporary litter box (I marked 3 from the pile and put them in the box for encouragement) and no more outside tonight when i scoured the run for any other hiding spots. I didn't even have to lock them in, but will keep everyone in a little later this weekend anyways. I better get more than 2 eggs a day after finding a pile of 63!

 

[Rhoise]

Counted all the eggs in the clutch as I placed them in a water bucket, final count is 63! I did the water test tonight and carefully swished them around, no floaters! Chickies are going to have 60 scrambled eggs this weekend! On a happier exciting note, I found 2 new perfect brown eggs in the temporary litter box (I marked 3 from the pile and put them in the box for encouragement) and no more outside tonight when i scoured the run for any other hiding spots. I didn't even have to lock them in, but will keep everyone in a little later this weekend anyways. I better get more than 2 eggs a day after finding a pile of 63!

Holy Smokes 63!! thats wild!!! Congrats on the first two you got in the nest box! Treat yourself to breakfast, I ours 10 mins after it hatched for dinner last saturday.How many pullets do you have? I've been wondering and trying to figure in my head how many birds and how long were they tricking you?

 

[Rhoise]

Ok I'm getting really discouraged here in Boise. I've been feeding the girls yogurt mash, and calcium, electrolytes, and layer pellets...Frankie layed her second egg in 6 days, another Dud, at least it was inside the coop again. We went to the movies tonight, when we got home I went out to put them all to bed and Frankie was laying on the floor(not the roost as usual). When I lifted her up to set her on the roost, there it was another soft shelled mushy broken egg

She is 18 weeks and 5 days old, her first egg was @ 17 weeks 6 days old?? Kind of depressing, but thought I'd post just in case there is someone else out there going through what we are. The temps continue to be brutal here high 90's and 100's, Tuesday it reached 106 ugghh!! We are surrounded in the valley by fires so the air is smokey and it's stifling hot. Young hen, temps, calcium? not sure the cause, but will try to remain chin up and be patient, we really didn't expect to start seeing any eggs till the end of this month or so anyway, so 2 is better than none? I guess. I will keep my expectations in check and think positive thoughts

Congratulations to all the first eggers, I am very excited and amazed at all the cool shapes, colors and sizes of everyone first few eggs, oh and I mustn't forget Lapeerian's amazing 63 hidden eggs!!!! All I can say to that one is WOW!
And to the rest of us still waiting for that first pullet to lay or maybe the rest of your girls to start, maybe just to get one normal egg? What ever it is......
HANG IN THERE!!! OUR TIME IS COMING!!!!!!!