Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

[Chick-InnKeeper]

This is our first egg ever. Given to us by our 17 week olive egger. Hard to tell the color by the picture, but a lovely pale olive.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

Not my first ever ever but my first white leghorn egg and my first white egg. I've had chickens off and on for 30ish years but always had cream, light brown and brown eggs. I used to think they some how bleached the eggs in the grocery store to make them so white. I was amazed how white the white leghorn egg is naturally.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

These are the other eggs that have been laid...5/8 of them are cracked (1 not pictured because I ate it). They scratch out all the bedding in the nesting boxes and lay on the plywood but the crack looks like it’s from them pecking it? They also lay in this particularly heavily branched area that’s hard to get to haha. Any advice? Why won’t they lay in their boxes . Do you think they’re pecking their eggs or they’re just cracking on the hard surface? View attachment 2294945View attachment 2294946

If your free ranging them , try locking them up in a run with access to their nesting boxes until they get the hang of laying in them, Chickens are creatures of habit and maybe you need to direct them to a new habit of laying in the boxes. It does look more like a peck than a crack but maybe it's from stepping on them and your egg shells are not hard enough. Try adding a calcium supplement like oyster shells or strictly feeding laying feed and lay off treats and see if it's the egg shell not being thick enough. Are your nesting boxes big enough? I like at least 14 cubic inch boxes or one single big one that they can share. Put a ledge up where the chickens cant scratch out the bedding or add a mat of some sort (fiber/carpet/rubber) to soften the landing in case the chicken pushes all the bedding off the bottom. I like making my bedding nice and deep so they can nestle down real good and make a bowl to hold the eggs together and limits the other hens that lay in the same spot from pushing the eggs around.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have some hens laying, one broody and one caring for chicks. I also have pullets, about 1 month out from laying (6 months) or maybe ready to lay soon. It is a good mix coco maran, welsummer, blue bell egger, saphirre jem and 2 LO.

 

[Grammie Has Chickens]

Paula (one of my Silkie / D'uccle cross) laid her first egg - my first egg as a newbie Chicken Mama! I knew she was up to something because she went up into the coop house and was sitting in the nest box. None of my chickens go into the coop house except at night to sleep! I was a little worried when I peeked through the door and saw her panting. About an hour later, I saw her outside again and lo and behold, a perfect little gift in the nest box. She and her sisters are 21 weeks old.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I forgot I also have a BA, the BA and the saphire gem are now laying...a white egg and a pink-y mauve egg.

 

[Onechicktwochickthree]

This was a while ago now (may 7th) , but i can recall my excitement when i saw this teeny, tiny egg, and heard the noise. Luckily I'm over cautious and have a camera in my coop so I know when they go to bed and I can lock them up, and when they wake or if any foxes come by., love my big girls. Can't be too safe or you'll always be sorry.



Took me ages to find this photo, now they throw eggs at me too large for these egg boxes, second photo.

 

[lu bantam chickens]

What sort of camera do you have in your coop?, I would love to get one for mine
great sized eggs then

 

[RoseHawke]

Post your first egg pics! We are all so proud when our pets sing the egg song for the very first time and lay their first egg. Let's see those proud moments!

This is the very first egg from my Turken who I named Prettie, because she was so beautiful. She had been raised kept on display in a cage at a feed store as a curiosity and I paid way more than I should have to get her free.
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This is the sweet girl who gave me the first egg. This was in 2004, so she is long gone, but we'll always remember our first summer of chicken keeping.
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We started this new thread as the old one has so many broken links.

Is there another "post your first egg" thread? If not, would it be out of the question to sticky this one?

 

[gclarrot]

Today I got two new pullet eggs from 28weekers!