Good day for the egg box

[PurpleChicken]

My 9 standard hens are 22 weeks and coming along very well. Today we
had 5 eggs and our first green easter egg. My son was doing cartwheels
from excitement. As a reward for their hard work the chickies got an ear of corn
and a small watermellon. They were thrilled!!!

One of our farmstands had the mellon in the picture for $1. They are not
seedless but they are so sweet. Everyone up here is so spoiled by seedless
melons that no one wants the ones with seeds anymore. That's ok. I can
knock a tin can off a rock at 10 feet with a watermellon seed.

 

[devora]

We had a great nextbox day yesterday, so I know how good it feels. We had 5 out of 6 hens lay, whoop whoop!

 

[mom23chicklets]

Hey Purplechicken! I'm happy for you! And I'm waiting myself. I had my EE lay a pretty green small egg every day for almost a month. And she went broody so she stopped laying and sits in her nest all day. I pick her up and put her out to eat whenever I can. My other hens are almost 20 weeks now. Many of them have had red faces for several weeks, and no eggs! The wait is torture . . .

 

[PurpleChicken]

For some reason I'm able to control my anxiety when it comes to waiting for
them to start laying. This isn't like me. I'll be incubating soon for the first time
since I was a kid so we'll see how the anxiety plays out in that.

What was so exciting about the green egg is we watched one of our 2 suspected
Easter Eggers lay a white egg the day before yesterday. My kid was disappointed.
I explained not all EE's lay green eggs. When he found that greeny today it was
like he found a new Xbox in the eggbox.

Don

 

[horsewishr]

Congrats. I hope to get a couple of EEs next year, and I'm ALREADY excited thinking about colored eggs.

Today was the first day all of my pullets laid. "4 fer 4!"