Meet Jeffrey - Our Australorp Hen [Large Pics]

[3chimama]

So beautiful and congrats on the first egg!

 

[claychickens]

My 4 australorps are 21 weeks old and I am still waiting on eggs. I have 2 EE's tat are 19 weeks old and no eggs yet. My 6 Barred rock batams started laying at 16 weeks and they are still laying some what. The weather has been bad hot down here in Alabama. Around 6 weeks in a row of 96 to 101 temps with heat indexs in the 110 to 115 range. I have a feeling hat has a lot to do with it. Next 7 days looks like the same. Staurday it looks like a cold front moving in. It is suppose to be all the way down to 94. if that even holds true. High today 101. My austrlorps are big with very small combs. 3 are dark combs and one has very bright comb. ? Hmmmmm

 

[TC_BokBok]

On the left you have a high quality cage free egg we get from our local grocery store. These are as close as you can get to farm fresh eggs. Nice size, great yolks, just what you'd expect to see from cage free chickens.

On the right you have one of our two first eggs we got yesterday. Unfortunetely one took a spill and broke open but this one made it through just fine. You can see the size difference but of course this will all change over the course of the next few weeks.

The yolk was very beautiful and plump. We cant wait to see more and start seeing some from our other 3 girls. My urban flock are all 19 weeks old. I have 1 - Easter Egger, 2 - SL Wyandottes, and 2 - Black Australorps. One of the eggs (the broken one) was from Jeffrey here and the one you see in the pics here are from, I believe, a SL Wyandotte.

 

[scooterward]

Beautiful hen and congrats on your first egg!

My flock is only 14 weeks old and we've already put up the nesting boxes! I think we are anxious

I have two black Australorps so it's nice that you showed your pic of what mine will look like in a couple of more weeks. I know that Sophia and Chloe have a ways to go yet with their size and with combs and wattles. Theirs are just starting to grow and get color. Guess that's why we're anxious.

 

[greenfingers]

I have just started getting eggs from my pullets, but a word of warning about using real eggs - I have some golf balls in the nesting box and they keep scratching them out onto the floor! They also made their own nests where they wanted them (two others) although one hen is using the box. So I don't know if your 'real' egg(s) would survive, and I am always worried about getting somebody started on egg eating! Just a thought!