First egg from a pullet hatched at home

[Niss]

Last fall a broody hatched out 4 chicks. The 2 that survived a dog attack turned out to be pullets. Today one layed her first egg! It's the olive one, shown next to mamma's for comparison.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Wow, those are purdy big too! Congrats, they're beautiful!!!

 

[ChicKat]

wow---

nice eggs, 'like mother, like daughter'. Congratulations.

 

[Niss]

Thanks! I was sooo eggcited, but DH didn't get it

I see this as a huge step to a self-sufficient flock, a personal goal. A hatchery hen layed an egg in our coop, another hen hatched it out, that pullet grew up and started laying...Wow! I'm just really tickled. Plus I didn't have an olive egger yet.

 

[ChicKat]

It must take a 'chicken person' to really appreciate the implications. That's one of the reasons that the BYC forum is so great.


Maybe your dh will appreciate it more later on down the line LOL....it really is an accomplishment -- to keep yourself in hens......Good work. .