Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[leasmom]

On the left is my two Cochin eggs-(she's not a new layer)-and on the right is my RIR's first two eggs...she laid yesterday for the first time and then again today...I wanted to make sure it was hers before announcing it.

 

[cajunlizz]

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How old were you cochins when they started laying . DH bought 10 cochrins and has no idea how old they are . BUT they sure look old enough to be laying , esp. she they are breeding with the rooster . ALSO , do you have pictures of your cochrins ?

 

[milleryardchx]

I have been waiting months to post in here I feel like i had a dunes for a chicken I had two barred rocks i got when they were 6 months old and already laying so I got my EE when she was 4 months back in may.... well now the end of Sep I thought for sure that i had a broken chicken! well at 8 months old Ms. Lucy left me this this afternoon right in between the two barred rocks eggs

I thought i was never going to see an egg from her.. haha i had told my hubby a month ago she had till Oct 1st or she would be dinner on the 2nd of oct.. no chicken dinner

 

[Oceanseve]

My busy girl laid these in a 24 hour period

Cause I checked in the mid morning one day - nothing, then early afternoon the next day- two! She finally came through for me! I would have been happy with one. My sweet Buff Orp laid an extra for her dearly departed sister we had to kill due to mareks a couple weeks ago.

 

[leasmom]

I haven't owned my Cochin more than 2 months or so. We got her from someone else. She came with her own babies that are now living on a farm. She lays 2 or 3 times a week...I don't even know her age thats why prior to the last two eggs I thought she had stopped laying for nearly 2 wks she had anything.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Somebody at my place is a new layer, and is laying MAUVE eggs!

OK, not really--they're Buff Orpington eggs with some kind of calcium deposit or something overlaid on the shell. But don't they look pretty and pink?

 

[HorseFeathers]

Rita the Red X Link
Time of lay: October 8, 2007

And a more recent pic...

 

[Nemo]

Yeah! We got to do the happy dance!

We finally got an egg from one of our fifteen, 22-week-old Buff Orpingtons. We came home Sunday, the day after our wedding, to find it sitting in a nest box. It was a wonderful gift.

 

[ears73]

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Congrats Nemo on both the egg and the wedding!!! Nice gift indeed! I've got eight 21 week old birds and I am still waiting... Glad to know it finally happens!

 

[NurseNettie]

I've been meaning to post since last week-- we got our first eggs!!! Looks like just one of the Barred rock/EE mix hens so far-- but here they are-- we found the first 2 together on the floor.

I had "the talk" ( as hubby dubbed it) with the girls, put some hay in the nest boxes and told them, for their laying comfort, they should lay eggs in the nests. Sure enough-- not another on the floor

We've had 1 egg in one of the nests each day thereafter

Edited to add: These hens are only about 19 weeks old.