20 weeks - first egg

[Magda12]

I just needed somewhere to share my excitement!

I have the Hoover's colored egg laying mix, 10 pullets. Born April 24th (Pascha!) 7 are EEs and 3 have single combs and are olive/green egger hybrids (Helga, Luna and Hermione). The girls with the big combs have been looking bright red for a few weeks, and on Sept 4, exactly 20 weeks from the day they were born, in the midst of my husband's surprise 50th birthday party, my son brings me this tiny olive egg!

The next day, nothing, but the day after, we got two tiny bluer green eggs. Today I got a solidly medium sized olive egg.

So I assume all three chickens are laying, unless Hermione layed 2 on the same day. I know one of them was hers because she was singing the egg song all day and then I couldn't find her (she'd shoved herself, on the egg, all the way in the back of the nesting box). I shoed her off and stole her egg, then she sang me the song of her people

Here's my little collection, with a standard large farm egg for reference... You can see they're green, olive, green, brown, olive. The two green were collected the same day. The last olive was from today (getting bigger!)

 

[Samjo]

Cool, ain’t it? ( Had our first a couple of weeks ago). Congratulations!

 

[Missyschix13]

The first eggs are the best! Congratulations . those are some really pretty eggs! I really do love when they're little though. I just think they're so cute

 

[Magda12]

The first eggs are the best! Congratulations . those are some really pretty eggs! I really do love when they're little though. I just think they're so cute

I know I feel like I need to collect and display them and not eat them HAHA! I thought about blowing out one or two of them and saving, but then I feel kinda silly. So happy, though,to be on the way to being more self sufficient. I pay a pretty penny for eggs right now (and feed!) And I feel like this is finally paying off.

 

[Missyschix13]

I know I feel like I need to collect and display them and not eat them HAHA! I thought about blowing out one or two of them and saving, but then I feel kinda silly. So happy, though,to be on the way to being more self sufficient. I pay a pretty penny for eggs right now (and feed!) And I feel like this is finally paying off.

Do it! I didn't even think about it! I should have done the same thing! I ate mine already.

 

[littlecoopnextdoor]

yay! I'm two weeks in and it's still so cool every egg they give us