Our First Egg Ever!! {Pics}Updated... Uh Whats this mean?Page 2

[barg]

For a couple hours Domineak has been in the nest box, scratching, moving the ping pong ball around and sitting; at this point she is mostly sitting.
It's been less then 24 hours since she layed her first egg.
Is she getting ready to lay another egg or is she getting broody after her first egg?

 

[thndrdancr]

She might just be going thru a bit of a rough start.
My Fussy laid Aug 31, then nothing for two days more, but those two days she paced and cried and repeatedly went in the nestbox, like she was GOING to lay. I think she felt the urge, but it just wasnt comin down the tract quite yet. So she skipped two days, laid the third, skipped another day. Now yesterday and today both, she laid.
I think it was a very fitful start for her tho and she didnt know WHAT was happening to her. I found her with her egg yesterday morn, still in the nestbox, looking at that egg like "What in the heck is comin OUT of me????"
Today, she took all the golf balls and lined them up with hers, she thinks they all are to be together I guess!

 

[Chirpy]

Yeah for the first egg!

I think it's possible that she only laid one egg and it broke in halfish. The picture leads me to wonder if it was a double yolker that was pretty large for a first egg and thus it broke in half either while being laid or afterwards (she may have stepped on it). This is just a thought.

It sounds like she will be fine from what others have said. We'll hope so.

 

[barg]

Yeah it looks like a double yolker but theres a little too much shell on one of them and it tried to form a cover on the top of it...

What made me think she might be broody was that, several times I saw her roll the ping pong ball under her and sit on it.
She had been paceing and acting weird all day before she went into the nest box but, she has left it now and is hanging out with the others and acting normally.
Added: No she did't lay another egg.

I wonder, do small flocks typicly, all lay at the same time of day?
Waiting to see whos next.....

Thanks guys!

 

[ozark hen]

relax barg and let nature take it's course. the more you worry, the longer it will seem. I finally gave up on my worrying and low and behold...an e.e. laid an egg tonight!! yee haw! I am taking the attitude...if they lay they lay! ha I did see a dominique go into the nest box and sit on a golf ball but when I went back to check there was nothing so I guess she is doing a "dry run". ha

 

[Newchickenmom&kids]

Barg:I wonder, do small flocks typicly, all lay at the same time of day?


I have four hens and a rooster....we generally get three eggs by 11-11:30....then we get one or TWO in the afternoon...sometimes 4:30-5...We have one little over-achiever who likes to lay two in one day at times!