My First Egg

[MayberrySaint]

Found it in the corner...a beautiful, baby-sized, brown egg. I suppose it came from one of the Australorps. They seem to be the fastest maturing with nice red combs and wattles. It was a little earlier than I expected so I didn't have their tunnel nest built yet. She laid it in the corner...I bet she is PO'ed at me...her first egg, laying it in front of all her sisters and roos...
I guess I better get that nest built. At least they started laying at the end of a bag of starter feed.

BTW...She was 19 wks, 2 days old.

 

[Motherhenandflock]

Congrats!

Ha ha, I got 2 yesterday and one this morning
My red sex links are 15 weeks today.

 

[MayberrySaint]

Those red sex links must be really fast maturing. I used an oat-starter mix at 8 weeks to try and slow down the maturity of my pullets. That's why I was a little surprised by the egg. I thought they would appear at about 20 weeks.

 

[Motherhenandflock]

Ahh, the best laid plans of mice and men

 

[Country Gal]

Congratulations!

I can't wait for mine to start laying...

 

[Lunachick]

Yippee for your first egg!

 

[bayouchica]

Congrats to ya Andy ! Welcome to eggness

 

[wendy]

congrats andy on the first egg

 

[MissPrissy]

Congrats!

 

[Sharona]

congrats!

I may be a dummy but what's a tunnel nest?