GirlsHuntToo
Professional Chicken Chaser
I missed this! Congratulations!!! Great job Juillet!! I am proud of you! Keep laying those beautiful eggs! And don't worry they will get darker as she continues to lay. Give her a few months!Juillet’s first egg (and our first egg) has been laid! Yay!
She laid it sometime around 9am, a beautiful medium sized brown egg, one week after she started squatting. It was so lovely I blew it out so that I could admire it forever!
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Here it is in comparison with a store bought large egg:
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It tasted remarkably like the store bought egg, lol. My husband did a blind taste test and couldn’t distinguish any difference. Still, I am glad that it tastes normal, and it clearly is healthier since I know Juillet is eating all organic feed along with lots of greens and bugs.
As to behavior, she stayed loud right up until the egg was laid. I missed her egg song unfortunately, but there will be many other opportunities I hope. I knew she was close to laying yesterday, because she started eating the eggshells I had put out for them weeks ago (along with oyster shells), whereas previously I couldn’t get her to take any interest. She also had been excited to inspect the nest boxes yesterday and this morning. Just FYI, she chose one of the large nest boxes, the one closest to the human door.
What a wonderful chicken she is, I love her dearly!
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