First time my pullets ...

[DellaNTuff]

... Have just went to the next box to lay the first eggs!!
This is also the first time I have kept an older hen with them that was laying, she raised half the pullets and I added more when the chicks were bigger and she was less motherly and protective.

Im so happy I think I will always have a old girl with my youngsters from now on! Every other batch as been easter egg hunts all over the coop and run, or maybe I just hatched really smart chicks LOL who knows..... But I like it.

Also got our farms first ever olive egg today ... You guessed it in the nest box LOL!

Just thought I'd share incase it could help somebody else teach the young girls where to lay.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Congratulations.

 

[aart]

Congrats!!
Wants to see a pic of the olive egg and know that cross that produced the bird that laid it.

 

[DellaNTuff]

Thank you both.
The cross I have to figure out I am not 100% sure, this group was suposto be just marrans and light brown layers lol.
One of our roosters came from a green egg and the eggs we bought should have been brown layers but she also had an olive producing rooster, Its either 1 of those 2 pullets. Nice surprise anyway!!

Its hard to picture a little washed put looking but here it is. Its much darker in person.

 

[woodenfarm]

Oh so pretty!!!!!

I have been waiting for my Easter eggers and welsummer to lay colored eggs

 

[DellaNTuff]

That is exciting!
I had always had just white leghorn or a regular brown egg laying hen until this year. Im excited to see all the colors we get. I've a bunch of 3-6 week chicks that should have lots of color eek! This one was an early surprise!

 

[BirdGirl2004]

YAAAAYY! Congratulations! That is SOO exciting! The colors of the eggs are SOO pretty! I love them all together! Its really exciting getting new layer, especially when it's the first time! Hope everything goes well for you!

post here to share your story:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/first-egg-stories.1185347/

Good luck!

 

[woodenfarm]

That is exciting!
I had always had just white leghorn or a regular brown egg laying hen until this year. Im excited to see all the colors we get. I've a bunch of 3-6 week chicks that should have lots of color eek! This one was an early surprise!

I was in the same boat brown eggs and white eggs......
It seems to be taking forever for these new ones to lay their first egg. A few are starting to squat so that's the first full sign its about time
I can not wait.

 

[aart]

she also had an olive producing rooster

Well, no such thing, really.
Olive eggers are created by brown layer breeds crossed with blue layer breeds,
tho a male hatched from that cross(or an olive egg) may carry a blue shell gene-which is the key to green/olive eggs.

Egg is a nice color!

 

[DellaNTuff]

Yes, my wording is not correct. Sorry, I just meant the rooster she uses to produce olive laying hens.

She has a rooster she uses with brown laying hens to produce olive laying hens was all I meant.
I had bought a half dozen Lohmann brown hatching eggs but she thought because of my one pullets coloring her rooster she uses to get olive eggs went for an adventure. This is the pullet im really leaning towards having that egg.

I had planned to make my own olives next year with my blue laying frizzles and BCM but look at her ahead of the game lol.