1st Chicken Eggs..

[EggWalrus]

Groovy. Would also be fun to take beside an average chicken egg.... so fun, can't wait for my first eggs out of my chicklets! Hoping for blue or green ones!

You mean like this?

Here's a few fairy eggs some of our new girls laid while getting into the swing of things.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You mean like this?
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Here's a few fairy eggs some of our new girls laid while getting into the swing of things.

Oh hey, yeah, that's awesome! Thanks!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

And WOW, i LOVE the dark chocolate egg, who (what) laid THAT beauty?

 

[EggWalrus]

This year I've been putting the smallest ones on a window ledge and turning them about once a week. Now the inside has dried up into a little rattle ball inside each one. Good way to save them.

 

[EggWalrus]

And WOW, i LOVE the dark chocolate egg, who (what) laid THAT beauty?

We have 2 maran girls that lay those dark chocolate colored eggs. I need to get a maran rooster to breed them to. I've tried with various other rooster types, but none of their children put out that dark an egg.

 

[Export_Pilot]

So is it common for just one to be laying out of a flock of 13 hens..

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Are they all the same age? If so, I would say the others should start fairly soon, but they won't all start on the same day. Consider the fairy eggs a harbinger of good things to come.

 

[EggWalrus]

So is it common for just one to be laying out of a flock of 13 hens..

It can be. Depends on their age and maturity. When young, pullets will have a light orange/peach colored comb. But when they are old enough to lay, their combs will usually turn bright red, it's a sure sign someone is about to start laying eggs!
Having patience can be very hard when they are getting near laying age. But have no fear, before you know it, you'll be up to your eyeballs in eggs!

 

[Export_Pilot]

2 of the 3 Leg horns the lat 2 weeks their combs and waddles went rad and have been clucking and clucking and clucking..

Nest Boxes Are not done they have been on top of the straw box clucking but no eggs.. the one is still laying about the same size eggs daily.. I have looked around every inch of the property and no other eggs found except the odd duck egg from the crazy black duck!

 

[so lucky]

You might provide the chickens with a milk crate with straw or hay, or a bucket with hay, until you get the nest boxes done. I had one silly Speckled Sussex that would hop a fence, get into a wheelbarrow under a table, into a flower pot, to lay an egg.