Connecticut!

[NewtownChicks]

Yay!!! Congrats! I got my first marans egg about a week ago - it's exciting, isn't it?

Very! I actually teared up a bit and kinda want to frame that picture! Raising them grain free has been such an experiment and since they're 32.5 weeks now, after Thanksgiving I figured *if* I ever got eggs it wouldn't happen till spring. Egg #2 this morning! Realizing now that they don't like their nest boxes (I'd never seen them try to get in them until yesterday and the box is too lightweight) so I need to come up with something better soon. But loving finding eggs on the coop floor!

 

[Apdeb]

Anyone interested in heritage ducks or midget white turkeys pm me

 

[homegrownchix]

1st egg today! Hens have been fed grain & soy free since I got them as 1day chicks in mid-May so I was starting to wonder if my experiment had gone awry. But, lovely large egg with a nice hard shell this afternoon! Of course the ladies had to upstage everyone with the best Christmas present ever. Haha

Congratulations neighbor! We are in SH too! Just got my "first"egg a few weeks ago.. Although it was kinda cheating b/c it was from a hen I adopted that was already laying
.. Still waiting for my first pullet to lay! Yours is a big one! What breed?

 

[NewtownChicks]

Congratulations neighbor! We are in SH too! Just got my "first"egg a few weeks ago.. Although it was kinda cheating b/c it was from a hen I adopted that was already laying
.. Still waiting for my first pullet to lay! Yours is a big one! What breed?

I thought it seemed big. The second one was a little smaller but not much.

Not sure who laid the egg. I've got 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 2 Dominiques & 2 Rhode Island Reds

 

[fantomas]

1st egg today! Hens have been fed grain & soy free since I got them as 1day chicks in mid-May so I was starting to wonder if my experiment had gone awry. But, lovely large egg with a nice hard shell this afternoon! Of course the ladies had to upstage everyone with the best Christmas present ever. Haha

Congrats! One of mine also laid her first on Christmas, but I didn't find it until the next morning so it was frozen and cracked

Then yesterday I had two eggs (4 pullets total, 2 RIRs that are 28 weeks, and a dark cornish and ameraucana that are around 20 weeks). They were still a little warm, but one was cracked a little on the tip, the second was fine until I opened my door into the house and dropped it on the stoop.

I ended up hard wiring in a light in the coop about a month ago to give them a little bit more morning light which I think is what stimulated them to lay now.

 

[NewtownChicks]

Congrats! One of mine also laid her first on Christmas, but I didn't find it until the next morning so it was frozen and cracked :/

Then yesterday I had two eggs (4 pullets total, 2 RIRs that are 28 weeks, and a dark cornish and ameraucana that are around 20 weeks). They were still a little warm, but one was cracked a little on the tip, the second was fine until I opened my door into the house and dropped it on the stoop.

I ended up hard wiring in a light in the coop about a month ago to give them a little bit more morning light which I think is what stimulated them to lay now.

Oh man! Hope your next eggs make it all the way to the kitchen before getting cracked! Congrats on your ladies laying!

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

Just got back from going away for a week, had 5 dozen eggs!! Now we're getting a lot more eggs! And in the winter too!

 

[new chick 203]

I'm jealous of all you guys, I haven't had an egg in 2 weeks!

 

[buckbye]

Are you using supplemental lighting?

 

[Diadado]

We added lights and went from a low of 8 eggs to up to 2 dozen a day! I think they're set to go on from 5:30-8:00am and then 4:00-9:30pm.

Did you open that first egg yet? Sorta looks like a double-yoker.

Susan