HOORAY!!! PICS of our VERY FIRST EGGS!!

lisahaschickens

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Hi All,

I have been raising our very first flock of chickens since they arrived from Murray McMurray here on February 9th. We have 11 pullets and 4 cockerels (yes, I know I need to lose some boys) and they are 20 weeks and 1 day old today. Sadly, I was out of town when my fiance found our very first egg on Friday!! It's a perfect, small mint-green egg from one of our 6 EEs. And yesterday I got back and we found another one! So, here are pics of our first two eggs... I am so excited I wanted to share! This is what we've been waiting for!

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and for size and color comparison, here they are next to some other eggs (left to right: store bought duck egg, store bought "large brown organic" egg, barred rock hen egg from the farmers' market, then our egg #1 and egg #2):

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And, the lovely lady who I *think* laid them both. 2 days in a row and perfectly formed on her first effort! She's my little overachiever
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Miss Lady Banks:

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OK, thanks for looking! I just wanted to share!

~Lisa
 
Yay thanks! Good luck with yours!

Also, I forgot to mention that she also laid both of them in a nesting box on her first try... we didn't even have fake eggs in there to encourage her or anything... she just knew the right thing to do
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Yay!!
 
Yay!!! Congrats Lisa! & Lady B!

Mine are 17 weeks. I can't wait till mine start.
We had a huge loss last week. A dog busted into my coop and killed 9 of my chickens.
I only have 2 RIR girls left. Everyone else is much younger.

I hope the trauma won't put the girls too far behind.
 
Oh Jen, I'm so sorry to hear that! That's awful...

Hopefully your little ones are keeping you busy. Are the 2 remaining RIRs injured or are they totally OK?

no more eggs for us today. Official count is still 2 eggs total (1 Friday, 1 Saturday).
 

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