First Egg Countdown

[debid]

Yay for Happy Chooks! You give me hope that my Welsummers are, in fact, going to lay eggs at some point.

Pullet #2 joined the party today -- another EE. Gertrude contributed a rather oblong blue-green egg to the same nestbox her EE sis Hazel has been visiting 6 days out of 7 (woo-hoo, Hazel!) It really is worth the wait but geez, I had no idea some of them would be so slow! My speckled Sussex Maggie was up checking out the boxes today...

 

[Pele]

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Grats on the blue-green eggs. I'm jealous! Although I should be happy with my EE's literal interpretation of her breed name. Who knew a bird could lay pastel mint colored eggs?

 

[debid]

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Grats on the blue-green eggs. I'm jealous! Although I should be happy with my EE's literal interpretation of her breed name. Who knew a bird could lay pastel mint colored eggs?

I saw someone post a pic of an EE's mint egg with brown speckles. I'd LOVE some of those! I was hoping Gertie might lay blue since she has a very masculine 3-row pea comb but I'll take blue-green.

 

[CarolynF]

Yipee, Yippee, it's here!

Ruby, my BCMarans layed her first egg today! We thought her behavior the past 2-3 days was heralding something new, and it turned out true! The sad part is there won't be any more First Eggers, but that's ok, I like THIS. It's quite a bit larger than Pearl's first egg was (my pretty Black Aussie). Nice. And judging from the dark freckles, when her ink jets are working at full tilt, her eggs should be a nice chocolate brown. Love it!

Here are eggs from all three of my girls. From the left here are today's haul...
Ruby's at 1.4 oz., Pearl's at 1.75 oz, and Ginger's green egg at 2.05 oz. Way to go girls!

Unfortunately, Ruby must have been a bit over zealous with her new prize... it's cracked

 

[Louisianahomegrown]

Got my first egg today. My barred rocks are 133 days old. It's really small. I am very excited as I am new to all of this. Hurrah for my ladies!

 

[CarolynF]

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Congratulations! And less than 20 weeks old!

And Welcome to BYC!

 

[inthesilo]

Our 6 RIRs gave us their first egg today (I consider it a group effort) after 22.5 weeks. 5 stayed outside most of the day to give the other her space... she spent most of the day in a nest box scratching around, pulling in more shavings, stepping out, back in (I have a webcam inside - not much work done today!) I checked 5PM and there it was right in the center of the nest box, voila, larger than expected, brown with tiny white speckles - I guess we're doing something right.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats everyone!

31 weeks now and I'm still waiting on 1 wellie and 1 barnie. My olive egger and BR are now 22 weeks - no eggs yet.

 

[stcroixusvi]

Wow, pretty eggs! We are getting 4 a day now from 6 RIR hens that are 22 weeks old Tuesday. Nothing yet from 4 EEs, 2 Polish hens or 6 BPRs. They all watch the others as they lay - great deal of curiosity!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I think my 2nd barnevelder laid today. The egg is a different shade than the others I've been getting and it was in the box the other pullet was checking out. I've been sick, so haven't gotten around to a picture yet, but I will

So now it's up to a 31 week old welsummer to get her butt in gear.