My Chciken laid no fart eggs...rare?

[ChickNhood]

I have a red sex link that I got the end of march as a yound chick... She started laying a week ago today and has given me an egg everyday! My question is : is it common for hens to skip the little fart eggs and go right to full on production... I never found a single fart egg/sheless egg or any of the other commons that occompany new layers... Is this rare? Not complaining just new to chickens and kinda curious!

 

[Pullet Surprise]

Mine have all laid 'real' eggs right off the bat, no fart eggs.

 

[Vickilynn45]

Lucky you! That's great. I had one that had problems with soft shells at first, and the other one just lays smaller eggs. But today I got my first normal sized egg!

 

[Pullet Surprise]

Yay!!!! Glad you got a real one! I have no idea why they do what they do when they do it...they are all so diffrent! Congratz on your egg!

 

[ladyrsanti]

It can't be all that uncommon because mine are all just coming to the point of laying and I haven't had a single fart egg either. The eggs have all been perfectly shaped, colored, strong and averaging about 1.6 oz. After reading so many threads on here about chicken problems, I totally expected issues but this is a little too normal to be believed. Like you said, not that I'm complaining.

ETA: I chalk it up to all that reading here on BYC. I've become a good chicken momma with preventative care and so they are healthy, at least that's the story I'm sticking to.

 

[ChickNhood]

Thanks for all the replies... Much appreciated!

 

[Missa Chickabee]

I'm just wondering if starting them on time or slightly before their 18the week on layer food would have something to do with it.(more calcium in it I presume.)
Some operate on "catch-up mode and some are prepared in advance. It was just a thought. If left up to me, I would have had the Chicken Taj Mahal built before buying chicks, but someone figured growing chicks would be a good catalyst to get the coop built. (

chick dust everywhere in the house)

 

[Den in Penn]

Most pullets start off with pullet/peewee, the smallest grade on the USDA chart, and work their way up thru the grade sizes to their finial size. A true under size egg or fart or wind egg is not that common. Chickens bred for production, the stars, the comets etc. tend to start with larger sizes.
Good nutrition is always a factor in a pullets performance. A pullet on a good diet should have enough calcium in reserve in her body to lay well for a week or so without added calcium. At the POL, having the calcium rich layer feed so she doesn't have to drawl on those reserves is good.

 

[Missa Chickabee]

Most pullets start off with pullet/peewee, the smallest grade on the USDA chart, and work their way up thru the grade sizes to their finial size. A true under size egg or fart or wind egg is not that common. Chickens bred for production, the stars, the comets etc. tend to start with larger sizes.
Good nutrition is always a factor in a pullets performance. A pullet on a good diet should have enough calcium in reserve in her body to lay well for a week or so without added calcium. At the POL, having the calcium rich layer feed so she doesn't have to drawl on those reserves is good.

This is good and helpful info. Thank-you. I did not know about the week's calcium reserve. That's reassuring.

I will grab my layer food as my girls will be 18 wks at the end of the week.

 

[Den in Penn]

I wish I hadn't said a week. Each hen has a reserve of calcium to draw on the amount and time that reserve lasts can vary with all the different factors coming into play. Its like holding your breath under water. How long depends on if your swimming or just sitting. Does she lay every day or every other day, how much calcium is in what she is eating, is she absorbing the calcium well.