My chicken sang the egg song!

[Bonnie Year 1]

my first egg!!!

 

[7 Biddies]

my first egg!!!

 

[GoldieFlocks]

Congrats! My chickens are either 25 weeks or 21. I can't remember if I bought them February 25th or March 25th but either way they should be doing something soon. I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!lol

 

[AnnieSantiago]

Congratulations!

I'm still waiting for my 3 youngest girls to lay.
They are 5 months old.
They LOOK ready.
They ACT ready.
But no eggs

 

[Bonnie Year 1]

Mine did alot of pretending to lay an egg before she actually laid one. She sat in the boxes and sang the song for 6 or 7 days then finally today she laid one for real lol

 

[maryellen21]

Lately i have been finding cream and brown eggs in one box. It looks like my one tetra is laying a brown egg and a cream egg. Is this possible or is one oft rsl laying a brown egg then a tetra is coming in same box and laying cream egg next to brown?when i take eggs out the boxes are then empty

 

[Renee572]

Not likely from the same hen. They only lay one color with slight variations each day but not a totally different color.

 

[Double Kindness]

Yes they are from 2 different hens. Happy dance!

Yesterday Gertrude laid her first little blue egg which surprised me. So now it's up to 4 eggs a, day, my polish, rose comb leghorn and Gertrude's 2 sister littermates Daisy and Agnes are looking about ready (Gertrude was the runt of that batch I got first week in June) to start laying.. and what the cluck Jeanette, get back on your lay!!

The thing I noticed also is my chickens get way more food motivated the closer they get to the laying point. And the more dandelions and grass they eat the better the yolk.

 

[Jewellan]

Do they sing the chicken song before or after they lay and egg and is it every time that they lay an egg or just the first egg? I have two White Leghorns laying. They made a Heck of a Ruckus before they laid. The others I do not expect to lay any time soon. Probably October. The rest of my ladies are breeds that traditionally do not start laying until they are 5 to six months old, Easter Eggers, Blue Favaucanas, Jersey Giant, Buff orpinton, Cockoo Maran, I am not sure about the Plymouth Barred Rock. It sure is nice to find eggs though, can't wait until more start laying

 

[zarafa121]

The days are getting shorter here in Central PA, and I am finding feathers all around. Out of four hens, I have been getting first one, then two, and this past week three, with the fourth hen squating and sitting in the nest but no egg. Today there were just two. I am hoping to go through September before molting begins in earnest. A comment about the song: I have no idea what it sounds like. The girls do loud clucking and soft churling. The most consistent sign of eggs is the squatting. They are red sex link now over five months old. For about a week, they were eating like there was no tomorrow. This morning they barely were interested in food.

A hearty congratulations for those first eggs! It is a very sweet moment.