First Egg Countdown

[gwenirish11]

Yep no nest on the floor! Your prob right about it being a timing thing. I hope she gets it down quick!

 

[Pele]

Yep no nest on the floor! Your prob right about it being a timing thing. I hope she gets it down quick!

Yeah, all my hens laid in the run for their first eggs. I think it surprises the poor dears. Give her a few more tries before labling her a rebel .

 

[rlhagan56]

Lol, my little banty who just started laying has had 3 oopsies on the roost since the first one. All cracked even though I have shavings down. Odd, she made a nice nest in the nesting box for the first one. I look at her, she looks at me with that innocent expression. Told her she better get her house in order soon or I would take the roost away.

 

[MissusC]

We finally got our first egg! It's from one of the EEs, who aren't my oldest girls but it has to be one of them as it's a minty green egg. (My EEs are 29.5 weeks.) So exciting!

 

[gwenirish11]

YAY!! Very excited for you Missuc! My wyandotte got it in her box yesterday!!! I was excited!! Still waiting on these two slackers!

 

[Spikes Chooks]

Well my fourth and last girl, Sylvia the Silver Campine laid her first egg - and another one today.

So I am now getting three eggs a day from her, Beetle the Australorp and Ladybird the RIR. Barnie the Barnevlder laid one egg a couple of weeks ago - and hasn't laid another since! Maybe she didn't like it ?!? I was surprised she even laid as I have been told they are late to come into lay - often they need to be 7 or 8 months old.

They are all 6 months old and it is now summer here, so I am hoping for a long summer of laying. I can give some away and also plan to freeze some of the excess to tide me over during the winter months when they may stop laying.

So the wait has finally been replaced now by the daily excitment of - how many today? Where did they lay?

I have three nesting boxes and the three regular layers have chosen a different box each and now always go into that one. Barnie will have to share one - hah! serves her right for being slow off the mark

I am a little worried about Ladybird - one toe is swollen or injured and she has a limp. I posted about it and one reply said it might be Marek's so I rush out there each morning. So far, no change over the last three days so I can only hope it isn't that serious. Funny how they really make us worry.....

Congrtulations to the new egg owners - and good luck to only those waiting

 

[Happy Chooks]

We finally got our first egg! It's from one of the EEs, who aren't my oldest girls but it has to be one of them as it's a minty green egg. (My EEs are 29.5 weeks.) So exciting!

Congrats!

Well my fourth and last girl, Sylvia the Silver Campine laid her first egg - and another one today.

So I am now getting three eggs a day from her, Beetle the Australorp and Ladybird the RIR. Barnie the Barnevlder laid one egg a couple of weeks ago - and hasn't laid another since! Maybe she didn't like it ?!? I was surprised she even laid as I have been told they are late to come into lay - often they need to be 7 or 8 months old.

They are all 6 months old and it is now summer here, so I am hoping for a long summer of laying. I can give some away and also plan to freeze some of the excess to tide me over during the winter months when they may stop laying.

So the wait has finally been replaced now by the daily excitment of - how many today? Where did they lay?

I have three nesting boxes and the three regular layers have chosen a different box each and now always go into that one. Barnie will have to share one - hah! serves her right for being slow off the mark

I am a little worried about Ladybird - one toe is swollen or injured and she has a limp. I posted about it and one reply said it might be Marek's so I rush out there each morning. So far, no change over the last three days so I can only hope it isn't that serious. Funny how they really make us worry.....

Congrtulations to the new egg owners - and good luck to only those waiting

Congrats!

And on Ladybird - she may have just injured herself. If it gets bad, you can crate her to keep her off of it for about a week. Most times it will heal on it's own. I currently have a cockerel that has a bad limp from injuring himself - it's been over a week and no improvement yet.

I need him to get better.

 

[Pele]

Congrats Missus C and Spikes Chooks!!!!

 

[OleMissChic]

After two years of intensely wanting chickens and finally getting a small farm and chickens I finally found an egg in the coop today...on the floor, not in a nesting box...crushed. Bittersweet. I'm not sure who layed the egg but the shell seemed weak to me so I'm hoping it was crushed and I don't have an egg eater. They have oyster shell so hopefully the shells will get stronger. I haven't thought to check the floor daily, so I'm not sure when it was laid but it was right in the path of where the chickens tromp around daily. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the next one! Any words of wisdom?

 

[Pele]

After two years of intensely wanting chickens and finally getting a small farm and chickens I finally found an egg in the coop today...on the floor, not in a nesting box...crushed. Bittersweet. I'm not sure who layed the egg but the shell seemed weak to me so I'm hoping it was crushed and I don't have an egg eater. They have oyster shell so hopefully the shells will get stronger. I haven't thought to check the floor daily, so I'm not sure when it was laid but it was right in the path of where the chickens tromp around daily. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the next one! Any words of wisdom?

The first eggs can be misfires and misplaced. I believe my Easter Egger laid shell-less eggs a couple of times before her egg-making factory got into full swing.

Just put a dummy egg (golf ball, ceramic egg, ping pong ball etc) in the box, and they should settle into things soon.

Oh, and congrats!