First Egg Countdown

[mommas chickens]

My 20 wk old BO laid 1 egg on July 3rd and has laid one every day since, she's Mrs. Reliable! So now we are a waiting for our other BO and my 2 EE (who's eggs I my secretly the most excited to see!) to start laying I check the nest boxes and runs 5-6 times a day my mom keeps telling me a watched pot never boils, but Im so excited I can't help myself!!

 

[Alethea]

Watched pots do boil, they just take longer.

 

[CarolynF]

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That is WAY TOO TRUE!!! I'm going to be a great grandmother before mine lay, and the oldest granddaughter is only 9!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats to those of you getting eggs!

for those of you still waiting.

 

[sgoff]

Got my first egg yesterday. 1 lonely little egg, but it's an egg. Hopefully this hens 4 sisters will step up to the plate soon! My barred rocks were 20 weeks old last tuesday, so I guess they are right on schedule.

 

[mrsfig]

I have 6 reds, 14 weeks old tomorrow. Had them since 3 days. Last weekend found a small egg in a nest box!! Our first egg!!!!!!!!!! Then yesterday another, a little smaller than the first but more uniform in color. Why so early? They are still young. One of my girls is handicap, stopped walking at 3 wks. So just to gauge her weight. I weighed the girls the other day to get an idea. She was 2.2 lbs, biggest was 2.10. Have not used the eggs to see if they are yolk less. Any ideas, as to why so early?

 

[N&MSchroeder]

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Hi and

Wow! That is early.

There have been other thread discussions here on BYC about early layers so you might want to do a search. All I can say is that you are going to be buried in eggs when these girls are in full production. Congratulations!

 

[Happy Chooks]

My chicken math gets me in trouble every time. Got these 2 11 week old pullets today from a friend - a breeder quality Barred Rock pullet and an olive egger pullet. So now I have more girls to wait on.

In my defense - I did get rid of 5 roosters so I think it was a good trade.

 

[chickenlickin8]

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pretty girls and definitely a good trade

 

[ChicksterJo]

Great trade!! I'd rather wait for eggs than wait to see which ones are girls and which are boys

. On a side note, my two girls have been laying for the past couple days and the eggs look great so far!