First Egg Countdown

[vjbakke]

I think one of mine might have squatted yesterday? I was out there cleaning up in the run and she did this thing where she sat down with her butt in the air and had her neck feathers flared out. Is this squatting? She only did it once.

 

[Pele]

Horray to everyone who got their first eggs!!

 

[wowmanacat]

to everyone that is getting there first egg.

I still have a ways to go

 

[Barnmaradotte]

Heck yea!!! Got my first egg this morning! the wife called this morning and said, your dang chickens are freaking out and boking like crazy again! When she got back for lunch she checked for me and sure enough. Elizabeth Taylor the silver laced wyandotte laid, couple days short of 23. I will take a pic to share when I get home. for the record, she never squated.

 

[audrey02026]

Mine are 19 weeks today and I'm just counting the days till I get my first egg. Congrats to all of those that have their first eggs.

 

[CarolynF]

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I don't think so. Her rear would go down and her wings would lift a bit at the "elbow" sort of like bad table manners.

It's sounds a little bit like she was attacking a large bug.

But they sure are fun to watch -- chicken TV!

 

[Aemelia]

My 3 are 18 weeks old yesterday and we are still waiting on eggs. My cousin has 10 chickens and she said I wouldn't see any eggs until they are at least 20 weeks.

Darn her! It has been super hot here 100 nearly every day so that could be factoring into it too. Oh well it will happen and we will be thrilled no matter when.

 

[GA_in_GA]

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Neither of my BCM girls is squatting. The older pullet (about 20 weeks) has a big, fluffy butt and a very red face but so far no squatting and no egg.

The younger hen is about 16 weeks, loves sitting in the nest box, however her face is still pinkish not red. But she is quickly catching up size-wise with the older pullet.

So, I will keep my fingers crossed on our older girl will do the deed soon. Otherwise, my response to my DH will continue to be "No, no egg today either!"

 

[CandiceN]

Hi all

We got 3 new hens last Wednesday. They are 20 week old RIRs, and the farmer we bought them from said he was getting about a dozen eggs from his 50 RIRs so he wasn't sure who was laying and who wasn't. We got our very first egg ever on Friday and have gotten one per day since (except for today - still waiting to see if she gives us one).

One of the other RIRs is squatting, but the third is not. We also have a 12 week old RS. So I wait for the day when I see more than one egg in the nest!

So not technically counting down to the "first" egg, but for the first eggs from the other 3 hens!

 

[CarolJ]

FINALLY! At only one day short of 23 weeks old, my Ancona, Oreo, laid her first egg today. She had been going up into the coop all morning and scratching away in the nest boxes. So I checked them about every 30 minutes all morning long. Finally, I found this - not in a nest box but nearby on the floor of the coop. At least it wasn't in the run - and it was near the nest boxes.

Now if only my other six will take their cue from Oreo and get busy! Oreo is my only white egg layer. I can't wait to see what colors I get from my EEs, and the brown eggs I get from my New Hampshire Red and Jersey Giant.

The egg is smaller than it looks in the photo.