First Egg Countdown

[CarolynF]

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Welcome to BYC and First Egg Countdown!

 

[ronott1]

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Well folks, it took almost another 2 weeks, but this morning I found this lovely little brown egg in the nest box next to my EE's green egg! I'd sort of given up and dug in for the long haul!

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It was very exciting, I had to run and get my camera and tell DH and our 2 little granddaughters. Everyone had to run out and look for themselves! I weighed the big green egg, it came in at an even 2 ounces. The little brown jewel was 1.15 ounces with a nice firm shell. I can't wait to see if there's another tomorrow.

I don't know her precise age, probably about 25 weeks. She's been doing a MAJOR big girl squat for the past week. Yesterday when I opened the pen door, before I even moved in her direction she gave me a huge, elbows out squat!

And I discovered she'd been practicing in the nest box the past couple of days. Just for fun I'd fluff up the straw then an hour or two later I'd see it was rearranged--did it 2 or 3 times. It was pretty funny! Since my EE was the only other layer and she never does that, I knew it was Pearl.

Thank you pretty Pearl!!!

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Congratulations!

Pearl laid a pretty egg. Hopefully you will have enough for an omelet for your birthday

Ron

 

[debid]

Count me in!

I have 9 pullets ranging in age from 15-18 weeks. None of my chosen breeds are known to be especially early to lay so it could be a while yet but I'm seeing red, growing combs/wattles/lobes on the Welsummers, Australorp, Dominique, and Speckled Sussex. The Easter Egger pullets seem to be slower to develop -- only one out of three has a pink tint to her comb. I've witnessed what I believe to be egg squats from one of three Welsummers and the Dominique and I know from the pulled neck feathers that my EE cockerel has been mating with the Welsummers and Sussex (the Dominique has turned him down flat whenever I was near enough to see it and her feathers are all intact!)

I have plastic eggs in the nestboxes but still worry about them choosing someplace outside their coop. I've been letting them range literally all day long to help them cope with the heat. I hope that they'll choose the safety of the coop for their eggs but they seem to feel pretty safe in the poison ivy thicket as well...

 

[audrey02026]

So I'm curios I have 7 hens all same age and now almost all squating and a few singing the egg song. My BR laid on 8/5, 8/7 and today I got another egg however it's a little different in color. Do you think that it's from another chicken or do the eggs from the same chicken sometime have small color differences??

 

[mrsteiner]

Woo Hoo! We found our first egg this morning. My husband went out about 8:30 am and found it on the floor of the hen house. All of my hens are almost 19 weeks old. Since it's brown, it either belongs to our BA, or BOs. Maisie (my BA) has had a red comb and waddles for a while now so I think it is probably her's.

Now we have to work on getting her into the nesting boxes.

Her's is the small one on the left of course!

 

[bustermommy]

so was it the big one or the little one? either way, congrats!

 

[classicsredone]

Yay! My gender-confused chicken finally laid an egg! I was worried that "she" was really a "he" after she developed really light coloring for a Barred Rock hen, and then lost the grey streaks down her yellow legs. Thank goodness, because she was about to be stewed chicken.

 

[dbounds10]

My wait is over! Penny laid her first egg this morning!

 

[CarolynF]

I see it's been a great day for several lucky chickies! Congrats everyone!

 

[wowmanacat]

My two RIR or NH not really sure what they are so we will just call then barnyard mutts are starting to get red but I think I still have a ways to go. I just hope that they lay in the nest box and not in the yard. I let mine free range as long as I am at home.