First Egg!

[jthornton]

I'm stoked to find the first egg this morning, it was laid yesterday sometime in a bucket. I removed the bucket... gotta get the curtain up today.



JT

 

[sourland]

The girls will love the privacy.

 

[Junochick]

Congrats on your first egg, I remember how excited I was to find my first egg!

 

[PirateGirl]

 

[Chickassan]

Ohhh JT's an egg daddy! Congratulations you've worked your butt off for that egg.

 

[jthornton]

Ohhh JT's an egg daddy! Congratulations you've worked your butt off for that egg.

You have no idea, this is the second set of birds. The first were a tad over 18 weeks old when dogs killed them all. I'm still hunting the one that got away... I bounced back and ordered these the next day and worked my butt off to build a better run and yard for the chickens. You might say this is a $1,000 egg... next one will only cost me $500 is that chicken math?

JT

 

[Chickassan]

Wow, i did not know that! I have seen you really doing the absolute best for the brood you've shared here. That really is one well deserved egg, and i hope you find that last dog i know you do too.

You have no idea, this is the second set of birds. The first were a tad over 18 weeks old when dogs killed them all. I'm still hunting the one that got away... I bounced back and ordered these the next day and worked my butt off to build a better run and yard for the chickens. You might say this is a $1,000 egg... next one will only cost me $500 is that chicken math?

JT

 

[jthornton]

She is in the nest box right now trying to lay an egg, she is moving around a bit and sometimes her tail twitches. She is pretty quiet right now. Can't tell which one it is at this point it's kinda dark in there. I can tell a few of them apart but some of them I can't tell all 9 are RIR's. I got the curtains up just before she went in. She has been in there for 30 minutes or so.



JT

 

[jreardon1918]

You have no idea, this is the second set of birds. The first were a tad over 18 weeks old when dogs killed them all. I'm still hunting the one that got away... I bounced back and ordered these the next day and worked my butt off to build a better run and yard for the chickens. You might say this is a $1,000 egg... next one will only cost me $500 is that chicken math?

JT

I did a spread sheet that lists my building costs + feed costs... I have also been keeping track of each egg. That first egg was very expensive. I am now down to $4.32 per egg.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I bet a $1000 egg is super delicious. I remembering telling my husband that our first egg was $500 but I know it was way more than that. At least every subsequent egg drops the cost further!