AussieJen
Songster
On Monday I went to feed my girls some scratch and checked their nest box, actually saying to them "I don't know why I'm doing this, I'm not expecting you to lay yet", but there it was, a teeny tiny bantam pullet egg!!!!!
Total weight a "whopping" 16g (half an ounce). Yesterday (5 days later) there was another egg at 20g. I'm pretty impressed cos we're in the middle of a heatwave with temps above 35°C (95°F) every day for weeks.
So who is my clever girl? Half my flock I incubator hatched 17.5 weeks before the first egg - all brown egg layers so it's not them. The other half I bought as "day-olds" the next day, with only a couple of wing feathers developed when I bought them (I always assumed they were up to 1 week older, so around 18 weeks old). All are heritage breeds that I didn't expect anyone to lay so early. So lucky me
My question is, who laid them? Could these tiny eggs be the pullet eggs from my bantam light sussex (reddest comb) or is it one of my mottled d'Uccles? The hollowed out space they made in the nesting material was d'Uccle-sized, and I got my first squat from one of the d'Uccles yesterday.
Any thoughts?

So who is my clever girl? Half my flock I incubator hatched 17.5 weeks before the first egg - all brown egg layers so it's not them. The other half I bought as "day-olds" the next day, with only a couple of wing feathers developed when I bought them (I always assumed they were up to 1 week older, so around 18 weeks old). All are heritage breeds that I didn't expect anyone to lay so early. So lucky me

My question is, who laid them? Could these tiny eggs be the pullet eggs from my bantam light sussex (reddest comb) or is it one of my mottled d'Uccles? The hollowed out space they made in the nesting material was d'Uccle-sized, and I got my first squat from one of the d'Uccles yesterday.
Any thoughts?