First egg - YIPEEEEE

[Bawkadoodledoo]

 

[Wildsky]

I added more oyster shell for the girls this evening, but they weren't OUT of it yet. I have to assume this egg was just a first timer getting it together.....

I think its my RIR Cali, my second choice would be for her sister also RIR Scarlet..... but Cali's comb is a tiny bit bigger and a tiny bit redder...... Oh well.

I really thought my Ideal specials would be first, with their comb's growing so fast and being red and flopped over - but nope! (they're leghorns I believe, I had ordered the California white)

 

[pattycake]

I got two or four weird soft eggs like that the first few weeks my girls were laying. Actually I might have gotten more, because I found some bits of membranely stuff in the straw -- as if the hens ate them.

I supplemented with oyster shell and fed their own shells back to them and haven't had one since. I think it takes a while for them to get it down pat.

 

[Queen of the Lilliputians]

All sorts of odd things happen when they first start laying. I've seen some oddities from my own girls (one egg looked like it had been molded by someone crazy.. all weird and twisty. it was a dbl yolker and tasted DELICIOUS!

)

I think as long as you are providing the oyster shell and layer, it'll work itself out.

As for who's laying it..

I still can't figure out who is laying what for me.. and it's been a couple of months. I did look at henderson's chart, and that helped a bit.. sorta...


Here's the link if you want to look: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html


Meghan

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Sometimes young pullets just need time to work the kinks out of their egg laying .... not all eggs start out perfect and along the way a hen has a bad egg day just like us gals have bad hair days!!...

provide free choice oyster shell, some extra protein at times and sunflower seeds....

 

[Wildsky]

THANK YOU - I feel much better, even though I knew something ODD could happen... it was still kinda a shock to actually GET an odd ball egg - my bantams never gave an odd one, they've been hard and perfect since day 1...

 

[Wildsky]

 

[JenniferJoIN]

Yep, keep showing off your eggs.

hee hee.

How old are your chickens?

 

[Wildsky]

22 weeks tomorrow!


2 leghorn (Ideal specials)
2 EE's
2 RIR
2 BO's

My bantams are older - and between the three little hens have been supplying 1 egg on average every day... they do skip a day now and then.