Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Izzymoon]

 

[Cotton42]

My first Easter Egger egg. Um... it's white! What? Maybe a little cream - but no green or blue by any stretch of the imagination. LOL I have 7 EE pullets (said 8 in another thread - haha - Sampson the roo would take issue with that!) 21 weeks & 2 days today. Hopefully the others will find their crayons!!

The other is an egg from my White Rock.

One of my EE's lays a cream colored egg too. I was kinda disappointed, but I've got 2 others that lay green so it's not the end of the world.

 

[wayneclea]

Got 2 more eggs, makes 4 eggs in 5 days.
Near as I can figure, it is one or both of the two oldest pullets laying. Actually, Red was on the nest, just standing there when I took one egg, and she let out some squawks...
Question, what color eggs do Australorps and Cochin lay? I'm pretty sure Austra is an Australorp, she has feet that are pink on the bottom.
And I found her in Penny the Jenny's pen today, trying to figure out how to get back into the chicken pen
They figure out how to escape, not how to get back.

 

[bruceha2000]

Question, what color eggs do Australorps and Cochin lay? I'm pretty sure Austra is an Australorp, she has feet that are pink on the bottom.

According to this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/397930/what-color-are-black-australorp-eggs

BAs lay anywhere from a light tan to a medium brown, depending on the bird.

And I found her in Penny the Jenny's pen today, trying to figure out how to get back into the chicken pen
They figure out how to escape, not how to get back.

Yep, they sure do! I came home this afternoon and heard chicken noises. Went to check on the birds and found the red EE OUTSIDE the barn! And the door was closed. Which means she hopped the 4' fence of the outdoor run and didn't figure out how to get back. But she did take the "chicken route" south, under the fence to get between the barns. The other 11 were all in the inside run. We've also found this same chicken roosting in a room next to the coop. The top of the wall is conveniently the same height as the roosts right next door in the coop. So she was snuggled with them, except there was a "bundling board" of hardware cloth between the other chickens and her.

And we once found another chicken in the outside run looking in WAAAAYYY past bedtime. Naughty girl, breaking curfew. Thing is, their door to the outside run wasn't opened that day. Which means she hopped the indoor run fence and found her way out of the barn somehow, then over a fence into the barnyard and over the fence to the outdoor run finally up the chicken ramp to the window next to the chicken door. "Will someone PLEASE let me in???"

 

[Frostymug]

My daughter pointing out our first egg find! These were behind a trellis that leaned up against the house. Believed to have been laid by The Mistress, our 6 month old silver laced Wynandotte.

 

[bruceha2000]

...my chickens are spoiled

No, really?

 

[Debbz]

It looks like your girl is sorting out her new laying routine starting with a funny eggshell. This is a good reference for some common shell differences, which you find by scrolling down the page a bit.
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/979/maintaining-egg-shell-quality

 

[Sean The IT Guy]

So happy! My flock of 8 just laid their first intact egg. I had two days of broken eggs with thin, leathery shells earlier in the week, but today this little gem was waiting for me in the nest box. It was delicious.


side by side with a commercial, white, "large" egg.


I never realized how much higher the yolk sits on a fresh egg. I've never had farm fresh eggs before (gasp, shock).


Comparison with a bread bag closer to show how tiny the yolk was on this early egg.



NOM NOM NOM

 

[mydadsjoy]

Your baby is so darling! Congrats on the eggs!!

(whoops, reply to Frostymug)

 

[mydadsjoy]

Ah! Seems she found her crayon. Nice little tan egg. Yesterday's and today's. My daughter stood vigil this morning - seems it's her favorite out of the 7 who is laying first! Smart girl - chose the calmest and sweetest, now first laying as her favorite.