Cordon Has Done It!

[3KillerBs]

I found it under the roost so she'll have to figure out how to use the nestboxes, but it's a beautiful, brown, medium-sized egg with a perfect shell.

I *thought* she might leave me something today because she was late coming out of the coop when I opened up this morning.

The egg and the pullet. I'm 99% sure it's her because she's the one who has been squatting. I was actually expecting Chipotle to give me a white egg first, but Cordon won the race.

The egg, compared to store-bought. First with a large and then with a medium:

44 grams/1.6 ounces

She will be 24 weeks tomorrow.

 

[Celeste Cannon]

Congrats! Always so exciting when your ladies start laying.

 

[Sally PB]

Congratulations! First eggs are magical.

Cordon. Bleu. Chicken.

 

[3KillerBs]

Cordon. Bleu. Chicken.

All my chickens have food names.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Beautiful egg! Congratulations!

 

[MomJones]

Breathtakingly beautiful!

 

[3KillerBs]

I was surprised that it was such a nice size. Just *barely* too small to qualify as a Medium.

 

[Djgm]

Congrats! I know how eggcited you must have been to find it! ;-)

 

[3KillerBs]

And she did it again. Possibly dropped from the roost, because it's slightly cracked. Or possibly slightly frozen, because getting the 20yo to collect eggs when the rest of us aren't home is a chore.

 

[3KillerBs]

We are eating her first 11 eggs right now.

Such a beautiful golden color!

I blew the first egg to save as a memento.