Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[WthrLady]

Do I have to sing to them? Rub their bellies? Serve them steak? Ahhhhh!

Still waiting.

 

[SchipAlong]

I got my very first egg today! A little 50 gram beauty from my eight month old Barnevelder, Valk. I really wasn't expecting anything until closer to spring so it came as a very exciting surprise.

 

[SMonroe1990]

Do I have to sing to them? Rub their bellies? Serve them steak? Ahhhhh!

Still waiting.

I find giving them treats once in awhile helps.. Or you can do what I did and with hold treats and threaten. About a month after I stopped giving treats I started to get eggs.

 

[JulieAGill]

I have three maybe four that are laying. I have a total of five hens. I've been having to keep two separate because they were pecked on causing wounds. I have put them on oral antibiotics because the wounds started to look a little yellow and I didn't want infection to set in. One has healed enough to be with the others but is laying eggs that we can't eat. So far she's the only one laying tan eggs, but if the other two start laying and the eggs are the same color that will be an issue. One of the wounded hens still has to be separate and she hasn't laid an egg in a couple days now. The one pecking is also laying. I sometimes put her in the dog crate so the others can run around and go I to the hen house to lay. I have a liter box with a lid in the dog crate for nesting. Could all of this chaos prevent egg laying because it's not what they were used too?

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I got my very first egg today! A little 50 gram beauty from my eight month old Barnevelder, Valk. I really wasn't expecting anything until closer to spring so it came as a very exciting surprise.

That's a gorgeous hen. She looks like she's made of brocade.

 

[JulieAGill]

The actual color is lighter than the picture, but still green.

 

[chicksurreal]

Here's the first egg from one of my 20 week old Delawares. She laid it yesterday after squatting and singing for about 10 days. She laid another one today!

This is the first one, though. Our first brown egg ever! We've only had eggs from our SS Hamburgs up until now, which are a lovely pearly white to light tan, but this one is definitely brown. It weighed 1.4 ounces.



And this is the girl who laid it.

 

[chicksurreal]

I got my very first egg today! A little 50 gram beauty from my eight month old Barnevelder, Valk. I really wasn't expecting anything until closer to spring so it came as a very exciting surprise.

Beautiful girl and lovely egg! Congratulations!

 

[chicksurreal]

Do I have to sing to them? Rub their bellies? Serve them steak? Ahhhhh!

Still waiting.

Lol!

I know the feeling! It's excruciating, but such a wonderful experience to take a baby chick and raise her up to the point where she will be a grown up chicken. It makes you proud!

 

[NerdTime1997]

This was from one of my five girls, it was later in the evening when I was putting them away for the night. I may have ran up and down the driveway doing some kind of happy dance...