yes I am getting 1 and it is exciting every time. I am just getting impatient for 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 egg days! I know it'll happen though. Haha, my family all had 1 bite each of our very first egg but we haven't eaten another one since. We split the eggs with our neighbors because we kind of do a Co op with them. We are up to 9 eggs so just 3 more to have a dozen and then I think we will start eating them!
from my short experience some know to use the nest boxes and some just dont. I have tried everything that has been suggested to me to get my australorp to use the box but she just wont. I now have 2 layers and the 2nd one decided to just lay her egg where my 1st one does. I think you will just have to wait and see what yours do. My easter egger has muffs I think is what they are called so she won't get wattles and her comb is just a tiny pea comb. It has reddened in the last few weeks. She has always been one that is hard to catch when I need to but she recently started squatting for me so it's easier to catch her now. I think she may lay soon. She is almost 23 weeks and looks like this (well a couple weeks ago)I am brand new to chickens. I have 2 black australorp mixes that are 13 weeks and 3 Easter Eggers that are 17 weeks. I put nesting boxes in the coop a week ago and put pine shavings and a couple of golf balls in them. I have a small coop so I need to open the people door to see what is going on in there, but so far I don't think any of them have checked out the boxes. Will they know what to do with the boxes once they get close to laying? Or do I need to put a chicken in there to show it to them? I can't imagine that would be any good since she would probably freak out if I tried that.
Thanks for the info. 2 of my 3 EEs have muffs, too. And they all have small pea combs so I suppose it may not be as obvious as a single comb that grows and reddens before laying.from my short experience some know to use the nest boxes and some just dont. I have tried everything that has been suggested to me to get my australorp to use the box but she just wont. I now have 2 layers and the 2nd one decided to just lay her egg where my 1st one does. I think you will just have to wait and see what yours do. My easter egger has muffs I think is what they are called so she won't get wattles and her comb is just a tiny pea comb. It has reddened in the last few weeks. She has always been one that is hard to catch when I need to but she recently started squatting for me so it's easier to catch her now. I think she may lay soon. She is almost 23 weeks and looks like this (well a couple weeks ago)
yes I don't think it's as obvious. Just a few weeks ago it really didn't even look like my girl had a comb and since it's gotten a little plumb and has gotten red, it as hard to tell it's red until she stands next to my australorp who has a very red comb. Hopefully yours starts laying before mine. I am impatiently waiting to see what color egg snowball gives us. Hoping for a green Colo but I'll take a blue too!
cute. We thought we had a Buff orpington, she was a yellow chuck. And surprisingly we got an EE instead!Your Snowball reminds me of my Marshmallow...
