First egg!

[north_north_west]

This morning, our Rhode Island Red was making all sorts of strange noises, and we came down to find her lying in the eggbox. We were out for the day, and when we came home, we found her first egg! I posted before and after pictures. The egg tasted great!

egg after

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Awesome! First eggs are always so exciting.

 

[WIchickMama]

Super egg-citing!

 

[north_north_west]

Super egg-citing!

Nice!

And - egg #2 today. I'll stop mentioning it now...

She's one of a batch of 4 (two Austrolorps and a Golden-laced Wynandotte). They are 21 weeks old, which feels a bit longer than the 16-20 weeks it should take them to get started. They all seem healthy and rambunctious, so I'm looking forward to all of them producing.

 

[WIchickMama]

And - egg #2 today. I'll stop mentioning it now...

no need to stop, we all get/have gotten excited over the 1st eggs. I have 3 out of 8 that are laying and I get excited and am still not-so-patiently waiting for the rest of the 1st eggs.

 

[north_north_west]

And now - ten days later - all four are laying! But so far the most reliable is the Rhode Island red, who's only missed one day.