Easter Egger club!

[hosspak]

When will a EE commonly start to lay eggs? Should I be doing anything to help her get started? Like putting her in layer box? I'm so excited to get my first egg! I want her to lay in the coop not in yard . Any tips would be great! How many of you folks have had broody EE's? If it happens, will it be at a young age?

I was told by a crazy lady, "Susan", Froggysomething... that if you squeeze them a little everyday it helps the process.

 

[cabinchicky]

Angie16hearts I put ping pong balls or golf balls in nesting boxes to help them get idea where to lay. You still may find a few outside or on the floor now and then at first. Oh if yours free range this may not help all that much. I can't free range here too many flying predators.

 

[cabinchicky]

Lurch, my banty cockerel who hasn't crowed yet.

 

[cabinchicky]

Fester and his girls. He won't let me video him crowing.

 

[cabinchicky]

Lurch n Gomez(?) I still not sure if male or not. Sure acts like it. Feathers on back of head long n wrap around.

 

[FVRM]

Lurch n Gomez(?) I still not sure if male or not. Sure acts like it. Feathers on back of head long n wrap around.

the white one? seems like a pullet

 

[FVRM]

Angie16hearts I put ping pong balls or golf balls in nesting boxes to help them get idea where to lay. You still may find a few outside or on the floor now and then at first. Oh if yours free range this may not help all that much. I can't free range here too many flying predators.

If you keep them confined in a pen for a few weeks before they free range they will go back to the nestbox to lay their eggs and then go back out

 

[Family Farming]

Glad to be here!

 

[FVRM]

Glad to be here!

thats a really nice pattern!

 

[RAnst4038]

Here are my 2, Shela is a sweet girl and puts herself between Rosa & my Golden Comets when Rosa is terrorizing them.





This is Rosa Klebb she is a bully bordering on evil because she grabbed a chick and threw it.





I was told that they were both already laying but I've had them for a week now & nothing.


This is the coop box (basket), I added the curtain because I read on here they like privacy.
Is this OK or do my chickens think it's weird?






I also have this one under the picnic table. I keep showing them the blue plastic easter eggs.