First Egg Countdown

[BBsChicks]

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AMEN

 

[off-grid hen]

Ok... so my rose comb leghorns are 17 weeks old this saturday. My dominiques have less-developed combs and wattles and are squatting all over the place. I guess my girls do not follow the rules. I AM SO IMPATIENT!

Does it really matter if I have pine shavings in the nest box and golf balls instead of fake eggs?

 

[sdeneen2001]

Off-grid - mine managed to get the hint from a whiffle ball

, and yes I have pine shavings.

 

[samouw]

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Carol, I love the egg colors in your avatar. What breed of chickens do you have and who is laying what color?

 

[off-grid hen]

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Thanks!

 

[CarolJ]

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Carol, I love the egg colors in your avatar. What breed of chickens do you have and who is laying what color?

Thanks. I have 4 Easter Eggers who lay green and blue-green eggs, an Ancona that lays the white egg, and a New Hampshire Red and Black Jersey Giant that each lays a different shade of brown. In a few weeks, I'm getting some maran and welsummer chicks - so next year I'll have some dark brown eggs to add to the basket - and I'm looking for Ameraucana and Araucana chicks to add some blues to it.

 

[effie]

Well, I feel like a dummy. i posted last week that my barred rock started laying and posted a pic. As the week went by i would get one egg or none and thought my regular laying girl had quit. Seems like what happened was she was laying late after I put them up or early in the morning and again in the afternoon leaving me two eggs in the nests (somedays)which led me to believe a new girl was laying. Anyway, I thought even though some of the eggs were a bit out of oval that it was a new girl laying but thought they were awful big for a new laying girl. Hence this afternoon I went to give them some treats and saw 2 new BR girls in the nesting boxes-After much scratching around I got these and then my older girl Hennypenny layed hers a little later. So, now these look like what they should--cute as buttons!!! This is exactly week 20 for them-right on time.the one hen that did all the scratching and took the longest to lay had a little blood on hers.

 

[ChickenLord]

Opened the coop this morning... nothing... came back this afternoon and.... WE GOT OUR FIRST EGG!!!

Perfect little egg, not really a small pullet egg like what I was expecting, it's close to the size of a regular store bought large egg.
Beautiful light brown egg, with just a few speckles of white on it. Beautiful.

We're at 21 Weeks 1 day. I think it was laid by one of the Black Stars.

 

[AlienChick]

Congratulations!

And, yeah, that's a nice sized egg for a first timer!

 

[Mommato5]

We got our first egg today!!!! Wow! How exciting!!! I'm sure it was from our Red Star, Heidi. We've had her 5 weeks now and she is probably around 19 weeks. It's funny......she squatted on 8/11 my husband's birthday and laid her first egg today, 8/20, our anniversary!!

It wasn't in the nest box, but maybe next time. We have a golf ball in the nest box so maybe now that she knows what's coming, she will put it with that.

Darn good size for a first egg!!

Now I can't wait to check for another one tomorrow!!!