OMGoooosh My first egg!!!!

[cmom]

Congratulations!!!

 

[Hen'nbiddies]

Congrats to you and your chickie! How old is she?

 

[lucyb]

That's a good egg!
Got the first one from one of my 5 month old girlies today, it was a tiny, doll-size 50% scale model kind of egg.....shown below next to one from her mum.

 

[BigBen]

Hello all. I am about to embark on chickens for the firs time and can only imagine how exciting it is to find an egg in the nest.
I am wondering just how much better is a fresh home grown egg than a store bought egg.
What are the characteristics that make them so much better.
The reason I am asking is.. people say "why would you go through so much bother when you can just go to the store to get eggs".
I know that having and raising the birds is half the fun, but I would like to make a better argument.

 

[emandmikey]

Yay! Congrats on your first egg!!! They're so much fun! I got my first one not too long ago, and yesterday I got 4!!! WOooooo Hooooo!!

 

[redoak]

Congrats on your first egg

 

[Lorettawyandotte]

Woohoo!!! I got my first egg two days ago from one of my Black Austrolorps...she was hatched in August...I have three Welsummers and five EEs from the same group so I should start seeing more eggs pretty soon and a variety...I have one white egg layer a little younger, a brown Leghorn...I heard the gals whooping and hollering like something was terribly wrong and went flying out to the coop to see...there was a glorious medium brown egg on the floor...the girls were all walking around it and looking at it like, "holy crap Betty, did that just fallout of your butt? Are you alright?" I know it was the black hen as she laid another this a.m. with the same celebration from all the others...I had put my dummy eggs in the nest boxes and she did lay in one of those instead of the floor...I think that first one kind of sneaked up on her and surprised her...they are such a funny bunch of girls...and of course the two roos are strutting around crowing, taking all the bows and all the credit...[