Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

[rmurrayslcut]

Not surprised that you're RIR is laying first. In my flock, my RIR lays the biggest eggs and lays the most often. Hard to beat a Red. My next flock will be nothing but Reds.

Don't be discouraged when your first egg is small. It will be about half the size of the ones you'll get a couple weeks after they start laying.

 

[N F C]

In addition to 14 other birds, we have a RIR and an EE that are about 7 months old now. They've been together their entire lives and are so close, they are practically glued to one another. They don't sing their own egg song but announce each others! We always know when Zam laid her egg because Tracey sings and vice versa. Funny girls, we think they are great!

 

[MooMoo62]

Ha ha, I haven't been calling it the egg song, but I will now. I have been telling folks who ask that the song means, "I have just laid you an egg, now I will sing you the 'Song of My People".

 

[chickenhound]

I have 22 hens currently laying ( several different breeds ) they all have a different egg song but some can really be vocal. I guess its their way of letting us know that they just laid an egg. It can get a bit loud when there are several in the laying boxes at once. For some reason my chickens like to double up in the nesting boxes even though there are lots of vacant boxes available. Anyone have any ideas why this occurs?

 

[PBGGG]

My Blu, a RIR or Production Red (cant tell) is about 7 and has almost been laying one egg a day!

 

[JeanR]

This is always a puzzle to "new to chickens" folks who provide a nest box for each hen, if they are planning on just a few hens!! And only one is ever used (rarely 2).

No guess why. An egg in the nest indicates a safe place where this first miracle of production begins with the first to lay! (You can place an egg in the nest box to show pullets that have started to "sing" where they might go be safe for their first egg--they are as surprised as you are for that first eggs, even though mother nature gives them instinct about the event!--Yet sometimes that first egg will be on the floor.) Wouldn't you like to crawl into a warm bed when it is nesting time?? That's it. If the first hen allows and there is room, another may crowd in--otherwise will be impatiently waiting for HER turn in the box!! ENJOY!

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I love to hear the Egg song from my girls. It doesn't get old.
My rooster even sings it with the hens!

 

[chickenhound]

Thanks JeanR. I guess that makes sense to me. I have 10 nesting boxes for 22 laying hens right now in my coop. I also have another 25 hens in the same coop that just started to lay

 

[jencp]

"I have been telling folks who ask that the song means, "I have just laid you an egg, now I will sing you the 'Song of My People"."@MooMoo62 I love that!

 

[holm25]

I love hearing the egg song!!!!!!!!!!