Our Very First Egg!

[Ashley Pederson]

Our 19 week old RIR laid her first egg for us a couple of hours ago! This is our first egg our of our first flock and we are over the moon excited!! We have 5 chickens -- RIR, Buff Brahma, Gold-Laced Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock and an Ameraucana.

Would reaching the egg-laying milestone explain why she's become so darn loud all of a sudden? Over the past two days she went from being one of the quietest chickens in the flock to squawking really loudly.

 

[boskelli1571]

Yes! She's proud of her achievement - she wants a debutante ball

. Congratulations!!

 

[WashingtonWino]

This is Fang, a "Rhode Island Red" (breeders of the real heritage reds must be cringing). Anyhoo she's a hatchery red chicken, 17 weeks old. Check out that headgear! She's too skittish to squat for me and I can't catch her to feel her pelvic bones. Think she's ready to lay? She looks a lot like yours.

I've got one other pullet laying now, and she's gotten a bit more bossy and vocal, I'll bet it's a hormonal thing. Congrats on your egg! Hopefully she quiets down a bit. Can you imagine a whole flock must sound like in full laying mode?

 

[Chick ChasingSC]

Congratulations on your first egg! We got the first from one of our young white leghorns (17 weeks on Saturday) today along with some from our 2 yr old RIR egg-laying machines. We're so excited. Can't
wait for the rest of our "teenagers" to start.

 

[Ashley Pederson]

This is Fang, a "Rhode Island Red" (breeders of the real heritage reds must be cringing). Anyhoo she's a hatchery red chicken, 17 weeks old. Check out that headgear! She's too skittish to squat for me and I can't catch her to feel her pelvic bones. Think she's ready to lay? She looks a lot like yours.

I've got one other pullet laying now, and she's gotten a bit more bossy and vocal, I'll bet it's a hormonal thing. Congrats on your egg! Hopefully she quiets down a bit. Can you imagine a whole flock must sound like in full laying mode?

She could be close, but I am certainly no expert. Our RIR, Peso, has had a deep red comb like that for a couple of weeks now. I honestly wasn't expecting an egg for another week or so at least as I've read in places that they lay around 20 weeks and sometimes later. It couldn't hurt to start keeping your eyes open for a pretty little egg! It was much smaller that I was anticipating and it took me a second to realize what I was looking at, haha!

 

[WashingtonWino]

I was able to get a hold of her last night when she was drowsy and gave her a feel (which she did NOT appreciate). Her pelvis bones are still tightly tucked together. Funny how different breeds develop in different ways and at different rates. If she lays soon I'll be shocked and the egg would have to be minuscule. The wait continues!

 

[mmmyyykkkeee]

Congratulations on your first egg ashley. Their eggs will definitely get bigger after a couple of months.

My girls used to lay small eggs and now am getting bigger eggs. They aren't large enough though but at least they are not very small like used to be.