Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

[peachRN]

Our first egg ever! We have 8 girls-- Golden Laced Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, and Americauna Araucana mixes. They are just over 18 weeks old, and I found this in the coop tonight! So frickin thrilled

 

[Taycibear]

This is Homegirl's first egg at 18 weeks! She's a white leghorn so I expected her to be one of the first. Now waiting on her 6 sisters to catch up!

 

[Intuit]

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.

This is my first egg from one of my Barred Rocks. I wondered why she was making such a ruckus and sounding off. I found in the middle of the coop this morning. After I took it away she started searching the entire coop and singing everywhere. The brown one on the left is the first egg. Can someone explain why it's so small?

 

[CrimsonIdol]

This is my first egg from one of my Barred Rocks. I wondered why she was making such a ruckus and sounding off. I found in the middle of the coop this morning. After I took it away she started searching the entire coop and singing everywhere. The brown one on the left is the first egg. Can someone explain why it's so small?

Small chicken = small egg

 

[newchickychick]

The above was our very first! It looked like a li'l potato.
Now we've got four egg layers and, well... you can tell which one was a new layer as of today. LOL.
Top two were from yesterday, and the other bottom 3 from today. Plus the fourth which is... well. Definitely a new egg layer. She tried her best!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

This is my first egg from one of my Barred Rocks. I wondered why she was making such a ruckus and sounding off. I found in the middle of the coop this morning. After I took it away she started searching the entire coop and singing everywhere. The brown one on the left is the first egg. Can someone explain why it's so small?

Congrats on your (and your BR’s) first egg!

Pullet eggs often start out quite small. They should get bigger once her body gets into the swing of things.

 

[Intuit]

Congrats on your (and your BR’s) first egg!

Pullet eggs often start out quite small. They should get bigger once her body gets into the swing of things.

Thanks she is 4 months old and what a surprise, she laid another today. The plan was to start layer feed in 2 weeks. So we moved it up with a mix of chick/layer feed, also put out the oyster shell.

 

[MyCircusMyMonkeys]

I don't know who in our mixed flock (cockerels and pullets) laid an egg with an actual shell today, and it's definitely distended, but everyone is in a flurry and I'm very proud of the whole team! Two nights ago I noticed an egg-like thing (in a white sack) under the roosting bar, and my chicken co-parent introduced the girls to oyster shells that night. They had no interest, but obviously something clicked because today I heard the flock doing their "where are you?" "I'm over here!" back and forth even though they were all in the run, and I went out to check if someone was stuck or missing somehow, and there in their footbath (an old cat litter box with water) was an egg!

Obviously the boys didn't lay it, but they all seemed like they were in on it? Strangest behavior—the head rooster and his second-in-command escorted the two popular girls into the coop when I came out rather than greet me hopeful for snackies like they usually would. Everyone followed them in like "we're up to something, boss, not now". I want to pat all their heads and tell them good job; they're genuinely being so protective of each other. Or at least, that was the vibe!

We only have 4 18-week hens: a buff orp, an ameraucana, a blue Plymouth rock, and either another blue Plymouth or a blue/barred mix. The latter two are the popular girls (not that the orp and the ameraucana particularly bow down to them, just that the head rooster has made his preferences known). I think it was one of them who laid, based on when the breeds all start, but I'm super interested to see where we go from here. Thanks for being here to celebrate with me guys!

 

[BurbCoop]

We got this dark gray egg today from one of our barnyard mixes! Not sure exactly which girl is responsible, but there are two possible suspects. Definitely had to do a double take seeing it in the nesting box