Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Sue1954]

I'm sure that would have a chance to help, that is a wild high-strung breed being raised by a docile Mom but I would think much of what they are will be breed into them regardless who raises them!

 

[Binababy]

That sounds correct but if you really look at it like this: hatchery chicks are hatched in an incubator not raised by a mother and taught manners.. like a puppy or a horse socializing and when it's time to be weaned the mother will do so.. Also my lavenders wouldn't even roost 2-3 feet off the ground they just slept on the ground until I got in there and put them up there and showed them how it's done I know it will take time but can be done like dogs were tamed from wolves. I'm just going to try it's worth a shot.

 

[HanwellChickens]

RIRs (at least the non heritage bred ones) are bred for egg production, not broodiness. If you get a RIR that broods, you've got a rare bird indeed!

I have a RIR that just hatched an egg last night. I gave her two eggs just for the heck of it when I noticed her going broody and only one was viable. I must have a rare RIR indeed!!

 

[Binababy]

Awwie congrats on your new baby!! I can't wait until I have new baby lavender orpingtons hatching and running around with their mommies! ! I had gotten 4 baby girls and a boy when they were a couple days old this past summer and they are getting so big so fast! Is it age 1 or 2 years that they can start having babies?

 

[HouseKat]

My chickens just turned 24 weeks old and we got our very first egg yesterday:







1.6 ounces

 

[Lisaa]

Good morning, guys.

Finally, our EE started laying - at about 30 weeks of age, and 2 1/2 months behind her sisters. A lovely, mint green egg. She's managed three eggs in four days - this, despite a drastic weather change from highs of 50 to 60 to a sudden snow/sleet storm. It's currently 11F this morning and she laid her third egg a while ago.

My six year old can attest this egg tasted delicious hard-boiled.

Here it is, between our golden sex-link and black sex-link's eggies.

 

[hosspak]

Good morning, guys.

Finally, our EE started laying - at about 30 weeks of age, and 2 1/2 months behind her sisters. A lovely, mint green egg. She's managed three eggs in four days - this, despite a drastic weather change from highs of 50 to 60 to a sudden snow/sleet storm. It's currently 11F this morning and she laid her third egg a while ago.

My six year old can attest this egg tasted delicious hard-boiled.

Here it is, between our golden sex-link and black sex-link's eggies.

I love the huge eggs from our red sex link, tetra tint, and BC marans. My first EE laid an egg every other day for a month in a half then stopped. That was about 2 months ago and nothing since and no signs of starting anytime soon. My 2nd EE is laying sporadically, one every day, everyother day, every couple of days..... My BC marans was my first layer and pretty much like clock work every 25 hrs, day or night but hasn't given an egg in 3 days... But it has been cloudy, cold, and rainy for much of the week, so just like all the chicken experts here... I have no clue...

 

[mithious]

My first dozen

collected since day before Thanksgiving! Got 3 today so far...not really sure how many or even who is laying, as I still can't tell them apart very well...so far, all 3 eggs collected today were in the am...went out at dawn to a warm egg. Worried I might have an egg eater, so spending a bunch of time in the coop watching to make sure all is ok. Actually had one more laid last week, but was soft shelled and frozen solid to the poop board, so really have gotten 13 eggs, that I know of.

I have one pullet that is not laying, going from nest to nest, after one of the girls comes out from laying...so have to wonder on those, no or one egg days...

Most of my girls just quietly go in, lay and pop back out of the nest, but I have one that is so vocal I bet my neighbors can hear her a mile away LOL!

She was singing up a storm this morning

Sat with them, on a bucket, all morning to see how many eggs were laid, brrr!

Atleast I brought the coffee with!

 

[Binababy]

Wow congrats to everyone! I can't wait until my lavender orpingtons start laying!! one or both rir have been for a few weeks now

 

[gallito1982]

I know this is for first egg only but i just habe to share with you all the first dozen eggs that one of my cuckoo marans had layed shes working so hard she skip only ome day and thats not counting one egg that my litle girl drop to the floor
Here it is, how funny is the diferent sizes, shapes and colors you probably dont noticed much the colors cause the flash of the camera but she start with a very light yellowish/pinkish egg and they start to get darker every time