Finally my first Egg!

[pauleberly]

Well its not her first egg, but her first one was soft shell, second one broke when she laid it. Here is my first Edible Egg! Super happy. I went out and bought a carton of 59c eggs so she would start laying, and it worked great.

Caught her laying down, i knew she would lay soon





Egg was 2.0 oz and the bird was 14 weeks 4 days old today! super happy

 

[gemma24]

yay!

 

[pinebarrens]

Congratulations!

We got our first egg on Friday and another one yesterday. It's really exciting to find it.

 

[pauleberly]

I am hopign she will cause all the others to start laying. Ive got some big meaty marans that are starting to tempt my dinner table lol!

 

[Susan G]

Good morning from Minnesota. Just joined BYC a few minutes ago.
We are new to chickens ascof this spring and excited to get our first egg too. Yours looks wonderful and so quick...14 weeks...YEAH.
Sounds like you used a couple real eggs in the box to get her interested in layingvif I understand you correctly...is this better than the wooden ones or golf balls?

 

[pauleberly]

They are actually ceramic eggs, and from what I read it shows the chickens where to lay the eggs.

But yeah she is an early bird, but she's been a great chicken so far

 

[carlf]

Sounds like you used a couple real eggs in the box to get her interested in layingvif I understand you correctly...is this better than the wooden ones or golf balls?

I've used plastic eggs and golf balls both.

 

[Susan G]

Great...saw some of those types of "decoy" eggs and will get them asap to put in nest boxes. Thanks!

 

[Weehopper]

I have an egg shaped rock that I used befor I got the ceramic eggs. It worked too, but if they dropped an egg on top of it, the egg would break.

 

[Susan G]

Too funny...will avoid rocks!!!