1st Time Chicken Owner

[Burnt Brass Homestead]

Hi @HuntressKate

Nice flock. Thanks for sharing the photos.

Welcome!

 

[HuntressKate]

Our 1st egg!
We found it unattended in the coop at night check tonight.

Contents of egg. It was frozen. To our suprise, the shell was not as thin and frail as I expected their firsts would to be.

 

[janiedoe]

View attachment 3726881Our 1st egg!
We found it unattended in the coop at night check tonight.View attachment 3726883
Contents of egg. It was frozen. To our suprise, the shell was not as thin and frail as I expected their firsts would to be.

Congratulations!

 

[HuntressKate]

Congratulations on getting your first chickens; love that your daughter pulls up a chair inside the run!

I added two Sapphire Splashes to my flocks last spring. I know that there are no guarantees with hybrids, but I was terribly disappointed that they didn't have beautiful shades of gray-blue feathers like my Sapphire Gems or Sapphire Olive Egger. Cora and Alice are completely white. I was even more disappointed when they didn't start laying in August like the four other pullets their age.

HOWEVER, I was pleasantly surprised when Cora and Alice started laying nice, big eggs in November! Both girls are regularly producing four or five times a week. They laid even during last week's blizzard, so, your girls may yet surprise you!

Welcome to BYC, and best wishes with your girls!

When we got them I told her we needed to socialized them. My daughter is homeschooled so she spent many days in the coop, on her chair, with a chick or two on her lap, while she read her books aloud to them. -It was precious.

We have only one out of the nine that is all white. The rest have grey ombre heads accompanied with various degrees of splashing.

We got our first egg today! I can't believe they decided to start production during this artic blast we are having.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Congratulations!

Yeah, their first eggs tend to be thicker actually because they should have the same amount of shell material but the first eggs tend to be smaller than what mature birds lay.

 

[N F C]

View attachment 3726881Our 1st egg!
We found it unattended in the coop at night check tonight.View attachment 3726883
Contents of egg. It was frozen. To our suprise, the shell was not as thin and frail as I expected their firsts would to be.

Congrats!

 

[Tookie]

Hello, welcome to BYC! Its nice to meet you, we're so glad you joined!

Good luck with your flock, and congrats on that first egg!

 

[HuntressKate]

We found egg number 2 today!

Is it safe to eat the first few eggs a "maiden" chicken lays or is it advised to wait a certain period of time before you start using them?

 

[Nomadicus]

We found egg number 2 today!

Is it safe to eat the first few eggs a "maiden" chicken lays or is it advised to wait a certain period of time before you start using them?

As long as you found it while still fresh it is edible.

 

[TwoCrows]

We found egg number 2 today!

Is it safe to eat the first few eggs a "maiden" chicken lays or is it advised to wait a certain period of time before you start using them?

Start eating, totally safe!