Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[junebuggena]

On the counter or in fridge. It doesn't really matter. Either way is fine. Just don't wash them unless they are seriously dirty. If you do have to wash one, use very hot water, and use/cook/eat as soon as possible.

 

[CackleBabies]

Our first egg today (8/20/15) from our bantam partridge cochin hen, Maxine. It was like Christmas in the nest box! Maxine showed the rest of the flock how it's done. I'm hoping they get the hint and start laying soon! (Especially my white and brown leghorns, who were reputed to be excellent layers starting somewhere around 16 weeks).

 

[hmsharpe]

Someone was being sneaky!

 

[heatherlaw]

My very first egg ever!!! I've only had chickens for 5.5 months and guess who laid first? My silkie girl, Jane

Cutest little mini egg I've ever seen

 

[Natalierose]

This just happened today!!!

I have 2 silkies, a Cochin, a slw, and a Orpington.

My brother said the Orpington was being loud today but the egg looks small. Input???

 

[junebuggena]

This just happened today!!!

I have 2 silkies, a Cochin, a slw, and a Orpington.

My brother said the Orpington was being loud today but the egg looks small. Input???

Eggs are small for the first few weeks/months of production. They gradually increase in size. That egg is too big to be a silkie's first egg.

 

[Clousic Chicks]

We got our first egg this morning from our barred rock who will be 18 weeks on Tuesday, August 25th!

 

[beginnergirl]

Clousic chicks,

Very exciting! Pretty color. My barred rock is 18 weeks and we are waiting

 

[chicksurreal]

This is Speckle, a Cuckoo Marans/Black Australorp mix, one of the two first chicks actually hatched on our property by one of my broody girls. She's just 18 weeks old and these are the first eggs laid by her, just this week. So cute!

 

[cmak]

No clue who is laying--mixed flock of 27 pulletsat 15 1/2 weeks...thinking it must be Biddy or Goldie (production reds) because they all of a sudden have combs bigger than the cockerels'. These are our first ever eggs from left to right, in about 5 days' time. We've since found another small dark brown egg. Too cool!