first eggs?

[chickenbottom]

are the first eggs usually get really small, small and deformed, big, big and deformed. what usually happens with first eggs?

 

[nzpouter]

small with a bit of blood.

 

[chickenbottom]

ok i will be prepared for blood

 

[sandypaws]

yup.. smallish... with a blood streak..
blood should not be there after egg 2 or so and it might take a while for the size of the egg to be consistant.. some are small, some are huge, some shells are deformed, some have no shell, double yolks.. etc...

 

[chickenbottom]

i got my first egg from her today it wasnt that small but wasnt that big either it had a little bit of blood

 

[FrenchHen]

Our first layers started dropping med-large eggs. The others started smaller.
Some blood, but not too much.

 

[DowntownChickens]

hijacking....

how small is small? I have got about 6 tiny tiny quail size eggs from my hen. How long should that last? It has been about 2 weeks since she started.

 

[chickenbottom]

oh wow thats really really small and ide give it another another week before the size starts picking up if not 1 then 2

 

[pamperedpoultry]

I've got some young Self Blue hens 1 has started to lay, her first egg was small but she is OEGB so their eggs are small anyways.. but there was a lil blood.. Ive got 4 hens and 1 Roo not sure of ages think they are all young. Had one other egg from them but It busted temps was in the single digits that day. The one I got I put in the bator, I candled lastnight couldn't really tell anything yet on it.. although i don't think I should have too high of hopes on it, normally dont get good results with first eggs...

 

[Rooster Ray]

My first eggs were not much different than the eggs I am getting now but they were a little smaller. But they still tasted great I had no blood spots or streaks.