First eggs

[NampaChikenLady]

My girls are now laying eggs! I found one egg 2 days ago and 2 today. Not sure who is doing the laying, just happy to be getting eggs. Is it common for the eggs to be so little? They are probably a third of the size of an egg you would get at the grocery store.

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[Tommy12241]

Yes it is perfectly normal for their first few eggs to be that small. They will gradually grow bigger as the hen does. Theyre good for making mini omelette's in the mean time Also another thing I use them for is a breakfast meal called "hen in a nest". Put a piece of toast in a frying pan with a small hole in the middle. Then crack and egg in the hole and cook it. Its very good! Easier to cook with the little mini eggs then the gigantor full size ones.

 

[cricketsbaby]

I am new to Bantams and due to a racoon a month ago i only have 1 siebright left. She is hanging with 2 Plymouth Barred Rocks girls that I got at the same time as my Bantams and is in the coop at night now with the flock of 39 assorted hens who are 14 months old. Now my questions for all you wise women... How big is a Bantam egg? What color? One of the chickens has been laying a small egg lately under one of my nesting boxes on the floor and it is about 2 inches long and light brown. All my girls but the Bantam girl (itty bitty) and my two barred rocks (my two Jennys) have been laying since last september. No one has laid a egg that small. My two Jennys and itty bitty are at the most 4 months old ...if. One more question about Barred Rock, what color eggs do they lay?
Thank you all so much for filling my time in the wee hours of the morning year round with interesting and funnier than all get out chicken stories. I dont know what i would do without you all. God Bless you and your flocks of beautiful faces .

Home of 1 Love of my life Man(yes it can really happen), 1 English Mastiff,1 Rottweiler, 5 orpingtons, 2 Plymouth Barred Rock hens,2 Plymouth Barred Rock Roosters 1 Golden Siebright, 20 Golden Sex Links, 7 Rhode Island Reds, 4 Easter Eggers.