First egg signs

Turns out there was a mix up in the order and the age of my chicken they had told me was wrong, she was only 14 weeks not 17 when I got her which is why I wasn't expecting an egg any time soon :-\ . Nevertheless I received my first egg today from her and you were right it is extremely exciting :-D . The egg was a smallish pastel blue coloured egg weighing 44g. My last columbines first egg was murkey green so I was quite surprised to find it. She had upturned all of the straw in the nestbox :-). I can finally relax now and enjoy eating her blue eggs :-) .

Did you get a photo of her blue egg ?????
 
My hen wants to nest all the time, she and her sister flock are almost 20 weeks old and today I noted that every time ANYTHING comes near her she fluffs up and let's out a single, sharp bwak... Even to the point that my roo backed away fast lol... Does this mean egg any time now or is she just mad lol?
 
Hi, can anyone help? I've got my first chickens - love them to bits, have 2 orphingtons and 2 Orpington cross. 1 friendly cockerel. I got them in April and they will be 6 months on the 1st of September... They're not laying eggs... Should they started by now??
Have 2 nest boxes and put fake eggs in already.
 
Hi, i'm new to this too my chooks are about 20 weeks old. they free range for most of the day on about a half and acre , i too was awaiting the arrivale of something other than chook pooh every ware, but at at someware between 17 weeks and last week ( 19 weeks ) one of the girls just started to wonder off from the rest and started looking at places were she wouldnt normaly be interested,like in my tool shed for instance paying alot of attention to the shelving ware all my odds and sods are kept,, in my Garage, again spending alot of time looking at any ledge or shelf that was more than a foot ( 300 mm) off the groung clucking a lot more than usual all the time. ihad neating boxes in their coop and some just outsice their coop with hey in them, then one day last week, she layed her first egg in the nest box inside the coop. the boxes were there since they were about 12 weeks old and i hadn't moved them, just replaced the hay. Her first egg was verry small no bigger than a pidgion egg , but now i get one a day, normal small size. i think she was just looking fof somthing that instinct was telling her, but my Sister said they just like consistancy and comfortable surroundings and not to change things around too much. i can basicly toss all the other supremo nesting boxes i made in the bin as she only lays in the old 20 letre bucket that was left there as an after thought. ha ha .
 
I have been told to get a fake egg (even plastic Easter eggs from the kids
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) and place that in the nest box to show the chickens where to lay... I've started that and, even though no eggs yet
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, I've been seeing the signs more ... Hope this helps... Can't wait for that first egg :he hurry up :cd
 
It may take the chickens a few days if you just got them because they have to get use to their new surroundings but if you only have one it may take a bit long but if you have a fake brown or white egg it shouldn't take long
 
MEN!!! I don't have BOs... Just 10 australorps... I just started a thread about coop size being to small or not... Any help would be great...
 
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AMEN!!! I don't have BOs... Just 10 australorps... I just started a thread about coop size being to small or not... Any help would be great...
Aussies are big birds. So you will need about 5 square feet per bird in the coop, 10 square feet per bird in the run. I keep these birds as well. They may start out small, but they grow big! My girls seemed to grow for a couple years and are now 3 1/2 years old. I swear they only just his year stopped growing!!

So build it big!! :-)
 

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