Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

[dutchlion]

i got to hear the egg song for the first time last saturday! i was outside when one of our red stars laid! it was so exciting!!!

 

[BoppsBees]

Make sure to send a picture please

 

[dutchlion]

This is Jinx and her first egg! She came and showed it to me when I went into the coop to collect it!

 

[dutchlion]

The first Baker's Dozen!

 

[MooMoo62]

Mine double up too. I don't know why.

 

[BoppsBees]

We call are first eggs pullet bullets

 

[WVDoug]

I don't believe I've heard the egg song, but I came home today from being away for 9 days and this was waiting for me, still warm.
I have two 17 1/2 week Black Australorp, four 17 1/2 week Buff Orpingtons, five 16 1/2 week Rhode Island Red, and five 16 1/2 week Cuckoo Marans
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[MarcoPollo]

Love the egg song!

And I love reading about everyone's anticipation of that first egg.

 

[RezChamp]

Aw! Your excitement is sweet. I personally feel there is no need to apologize.
I too am excited about "first eggs" from my birds. This year for some odd(not complaining) I got about 60% females.
I usually get 60% cockerels.
Less meat but more eggs.
But I have never really paid attn to "egg song". Kinda weird because I've been raising birds for quite some years.
Thank you. I got something new to look forward to.
Good-on-ya.

 

[Rockythgr81]

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?

I think it is the fact that if another egg is there already, they feel safer. I read somewhere on these forums that the ratio for nesting boxes should be about 4 hens to 1 box. If you want to encourage the ladies to use the other boxes as well try moving a fresh egg to one of the un-used boxes. This is only my second year with chickens but I started with wooden eggs (Hobby Lobby has them) in the nest boxes before the girls even matured enough to lay their own and I just leave them there, so far it has worked. I have never heard it called the egg song either but that makes sense. I know my girls (20 of them from last years batch) all get very loud in the afternoon then I go out early even and collect.
I can wait till this years batch start laying, probably won't be till spring now though, since they are just now 5 weeks old.
I have made an observation about egg laying that I wonder if any others have noticed. I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to track egg production (what? I can be the only one that does this!) anyway, I have notice that I gather more eggs if I collect every other day instead of every day, anyone else experience this? The average is the same but it normally increases over all by 1 or 2.