First Egg Countdown

[nursebecky99]

First egg last Monday! I have 2 SLW hens, and 2 Ameracaunas. So I've gotten 4 of those greenish brown eggs and 2 very soft broken pale green eggs this week. I also heard the egg song, i thought something was hurting my girls in the coop, but just singing in the nest box. Oh they were 20 wks old yesterday.

 

[kat79]

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I'm wondering... My oldest girl, a B.O laid our first egg yesterday. But I haven't found any today. Is it normal in the beginning for pullets to miss a day here or there?

Yeah it is. Mine only started 2 weeks ago and 2 of mine are still missing days here and there. So don't worry

 

[Too Fast]

I have a story for you! After my second egg I decided I wanted to "watch." What a show. Mama my RSL was in the nesting box when I came out. I went inside with her to give support if you will. She was laying in the nesting box picking up pieces of straw and throwing them over her shoulder, she got out...no egg. Went back inside panting, came out no egg. So I went about my business of feeding and watering. Then, Buttercup my BO that is probably next in the laying line came in and played mid-wife for awhile. She was chirping softly to Mama and investigating the nesting box. Finally, I left and went to the window and played "peeping tom." Meanwhile, my roo Bigbird was sexing up some of the other hens while Buttercup was holding down the henhouse and soothing Mama. Then, Bigbird came into the house, Buttercup jumped off the shelf and went out the door. Bigbird took her place as mid-wife. All of the other hens that are usually running in and out and very vocal, stayed out of the house and were surprisingly quiet. Mama was chirping as if pain, a very soft chirp, chirp, chirp with a few gurgling chirps....Bigbird, puffed up like a helium balloon, twice the size of normal, bent down and softly chirped soothingly and then they were conversing softly. After Mama layed egg number 3, she stood up, Bigbird left the house and Mama left the house as well.

Yesterday was egg number 5. I didn't watch as closely, but she did not lay that egg until Bigbird came up to the nestbox with her.

I had been contemplating getting rid of Bigbird because he pesters the girls to death, but after witnessing his standing keeping guard, that guy is going nowhere.

That's a great story! I'm on the fence about sending my two boys to freezer camp. I'll have room for 2 more hens that way. The roos are getting aggressive, and I'm sure it won't get better. Wow, they suddenly stopped crowing, as if they know what I'm posting!

Hi!
I just got my first eggs about a week ago. I have 4 hens, a white Plymouth Rock, a Golden Comet, a Silver Wyandotte and a ??? bantam.
I think my Plymouth Rock and my Golden Comet are the layers right now.

I get a tan one every day, and every other day or so I will get a beige-ish one.

I just ate the first ones yesterday, they were great! I think it made 'em taste even better knowing I had a hand in it.

And kudos to the girls, as well, of course.

Yes the girls had a little to do with it, eh?

I'm wondering... My oldest girl, a B.O laid our first egg yesterday. But I haven't found any today. Is it normal in the beginning for pullets to miss a day here or there?

Yes it's normal. Also you probably shouldn't eggspect an egg every day, but most days.

Our pullers started laying a couple of days ago. Not sure which ones, but I'm finding eggs!

Love finding the eggs! Congrats everyone on the first eggs. Seems like only yesterday I was finding our first, and last week we got 25 eggs! We have given some away already, setting those people up so they will never want store bought again, pay us, and we will have egg money.

Our flock will be 21 weeks old this Wednesday.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm wondering... My oldest girl, a B.O laid our first egg yesterday. But I haven't found any today. Is it normal in the beginning for pullets to miss a day here or there?

Yes, it's normal. It's all part of their bodies adjusting to laying. It can even be normal to lay an egg and not lay again for a week. It just depends on the pullet.

 

[LadyCluck77]

That is the squat.

Thank you! I am so excited for this one, she's my absolute favorite. I hope to show everyone a first egg picture very soon

Congrats to everyone getting eggs!

 

[horsesnchkns]

I'm so glad I"m not the only one that gets eggscited (new word for me!) when checking nest boxes... I was getting one a day (5 pullets/hens) - then over the weekend I got 2 a day. Then I got one TINY one! We broke it open last night and the yolk hadn't even formed. I'm wishing i had snapped a pic of it - it was about the size of a large grape. All the others have been normal "small" size. I got 2 "white" eggs... which surprised me. I almost have a full dozen now!

 

[Flowerbh]

I'm so glad I"m not the only one that gets eggscited (new word for me!) when checking nest boxes... I was getting one a day (5 pullets/hens) - then over the weekend I got 2 a day. Then I got one TINY one! We broke it open last night and the yolk hadn't even formed. I'm wishing i had snapped a pic of it - it was about the size of a large grape. All the others have been normal "small" size. I got 2 "white" eggs... which surprised me. I almost have a full dozen now!
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That's what I call an Oops egg. It is really just a piece of tissue that got into the "egg works" and traveled down the same route that a yolk does. It gets all the treatment that a yolk does and then gets passed out just like an egg. I had several oops eggs from hens at the beginning. I think they are cute and usually just show people for the kick of it.

 

[annie82005]

This is my third egg. Oddest thing I have ever seen!

 

[MalMom]

Are there any tricks to getting them to lay? Can I tie a clove of garlic around their neck, or put up a fertility god of something?

 

[LisaLouHoo]

This is my third egg. Oddest thing I have ever seen!

Yes, that's an extremely weird egg! Thanks for sharing.