First eggs - keep me company while chicken stalking?

[MountainWoman73]

I am starting to get first eggs from my 11 March chicks. Prairie Dawn (a prairie bluebell) is the confirmed layer of the blue pullet egg. I have a new olive egg that's gorgeous . But I have 3 olive eggers whose combs all look similarly red, and I think I may be getting a new brown egg as well. (I have 3 older hens who lay brown, but some recently have been smaller.) I'm really hoping one of the olive eggers is not laying brown.

Join me as I chicken stalk my flock today. And show me your first eggs too?

The small blue and the olive are my two new ones!

 

[Debbie292d]

So pretty! Congratulations!

First eggs are so fun! Mine are all the same though, (silkies) but exciting all the same when a pullet starts laying for the first time!

 

[Callender Girl]

What a beautiful carton of eggs!

I am extremely talented at having hens who do not lay the egg colors I hope for. ONE of my two Easter Eggers lays a green egg; the other girl's eggs are a light beige, like many of my other girls. And, my Olive Egger lays a completely ordinary beige egg.

I am, however, lucky to have a Midnight Majesty Marans that lays a pretty dark egg, and a Prairie Bluebell whose eggs are lovely but are becoming fewer as she ages.

My new chicks include a pair of Ameraucanas that I don't expect will produce pretty blue eggs until next spring. They're only seven weeks old.

Again, congrats on your pretty ones! And, good luck with your stalking!

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Ahhhhhh!! I just love colored eggs!! Yours are so beautiful!!

I currently have 7 hens that all lay light brown/cream eggs, BUT I also have 9 pullets that will be giving me colored eggs soon-ish (they are 11.5 weeks):

2 Noir Marans
3 Olive Eggers
2 CCL
1 White Leghorn (it'll be cool to add white eggs, too )
1 Blue Rock (this will be a cream egg, but I'm ok with it)

I also have some on order that will be hatching 8/26, and a few of those will add some colors as well (Bantam Splash Ameraucanas, Bantam Green Queen, Bantam Mottled Cochins, and Bielefelders)!

 

[MountainWoman73]

Chicken stalking fail. I didn't get an olive egg the morning that I dedicated to watching them. And did get one the next day when I wasn't paying attention. Lol.

 

[MountainWoman73]

Over the last week, I am getting at least two, maybe 3 shades of new green eggs. I think I know who's doing it. But I haven't seen any of these girls actually lay an egg.

The Suspects:

Olive. (Olive Egger) Goes in and out of nests and sits for a while, but keeps getting kicked out of the favorite nest by older hens.

Bean. (Olive's sister, another olive egger) Cackling and singing the egg song today. Currently in a nest. Today is the first time I've seen her sit.

Easter (an EE). Going in and out of the coop and singing the egg song, but I haven't seen her near a nest yet.

Onyx. (Onyx olive egger). Keeps standing in the doorway and going in and out of the coop this morning, but not singing or going to the nest.

 

[MountainWoman73]

These are the ones I think I've figured out so far. The four smallest are all new layers.

They lay like this, which is why I'm having so much trouble watching them:

There's four hens in there. Bean, Grey, Posie, and Olive. I have 5 nest boxes, and they like this basket best. Sillies.

 

[FrostRanger]

Such cuties! They're all adorable but Easter is just too stinking cute! What can I say? I'm a sucker for bearded birds :3

 

[FrostRanger]

Oh, and if we're sharing colorful egg cartons, here's mine

Plus Chocolate Mint's egg which she laid yesterday

 

[MountainWoman73]

All the greens and blues. I'm so tickled. My last olive egger died and the three after that ALL layed brown eggs (store bin mixup), so I haven't had any olives or greens in years. And I've never had one lay that nice mint color. I think Onyx hasn't contributed yet.