My 1st Egg!!!!

[baemiller]

So glad to finally see my 1st egg. But now the reality of it has set in. There was a small pecking whole in it?
So here are my worrries, do I need to be out there at dawn to retreve? I was told not to eat the first few how lon h should that last ? Should I be going out to check in the afternoon too? I also have a rooster. Does this cause problems for just regular egg laying? Should I be concerned with baby chick's everywhere?
Thanks for any advice

 

[GitaBooks]

Congrats on the first egg!

You don't have to worry, eating first eggs isn't bad for you (at least I eat the first eggs), you just shouldn't try to hatch them.

As for the peck hole in it, make sure the chickens don't try to eat the eggs by providing dark nest boxes with plenty of nesting material in them and collect two or three times a day.

I have five roosters! Chicks only start to develop and hatch if kept at 99-100 F, such as when a broody hen sits on them. Chicks won't hatch unless kept at these temperatures for 21 days. We eat eggs, even though we have roosters, we just make sure to collect them every day.

Best of luck with your chickens!

 

[baemiller]

Now some times I let them out of their run so they can free graze. Shiuld I be concerned with them laying everywhere or will they always go in there coop?

Congrats on the first egg!

You don't have to worry, eating first eggs isn't bad for you (at least I eat the first eggs), you just shouldn't try to hatch them.

As for the peck hole in it, make sure the chickens don't try to eat the eggs by providing dark nest boxes with plenty of nesting material in them and collect two or three times a day.

I have five roosters! Chicks only start to develop and hatch if kept at 99-100 F, such as when a broody hen sits on them. Chicks won't hatch unless kept at these temperatures for 21 days. We eat eggs, even though we have roosters, we just make sure to collect them every day.

Best of luck with your chickens!

 

[GitaBooks]

My chickens very rarely lay outside, but they do sometimes lay in other out-buildings. As long as the nest boxes are comfortable, clean, and have fake-eggs in them they should lay in them.
If they start laying outside, try keeping them locked up longer, since they lay most of their eggs in the morning (my chickens lay through-out the day, so this method doesn't work for my chickens).

 

[baemiller]

One a few start is it safe to say more will start, kinda of like women and their monthly? Or is every chicken on there own.? I have a dark coop but now that I see I don't think i have enough bedding in there for them so thank you.

 

[GitaBooks]

If they are all the same breed, especially if they came from the same parents, they should start laying around the same time. However, different breeds genetically lay at different times and mature at different times.