Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Reinbeau]

How old are Marmalade and Apricot?

 

[silkieluver_07]

Marmalade and Apricot were hatched on April 16th, 2008. We ordered them from Ideal Hatchery. We can't wait till their other three sisters start laying!

 

[lowcountrypoultry]

Congrats on all the first eggies!!

 

[lowerowe]

wow! 1st egg from our isa browns. we think they are older battery hens, but who cares! we have had chicken little and henny penny for only three days now and have had two eggs! wow!

were from down under and stumbled on this site, thought we would post!
we now have two more (younger ones) not isa's there Black Australorp's they are about 16 weeks old now so were looking forward to them laying!
anyhow here's the first egg and my happy wife!

i'm sorry measurment is metric

 

[ptig78d]

Our first egg, laid by Alice, our BR/EE hen. She was approx. 6 1/2 months old.

Yay, Alice!!

 

[newnanchic]

My first Black Copper Marans egg They just started laying abot 3 weeks ago.

 

[Henrietta23]

Quote:
My first two hens were older battery hens and they laid a lot of eggs for me over a number of years. I loved those girls!! We called them Rosie and Ruby.
Today I found the first egg that I'm sure was laid by one of my barnevelders. It is the egg on the top right, darker than the other brown ones. Not sure if it was Carrie's actual first egg, just the first one I'm sure was hers. It was in the duck house! We'd seen her setting in there earlier in the day.

 

[Ginger Chic]

The DS with the first egg. He was so proud!

 

[DesertDawg]

Yep the big one was a double.

 

[eggonomist]

Well I can join the echelons of egg producers, my girls were born on the 5th of June this year and yesterday we had out first, here it is next to a standard egg.

Today we got 2 and 3 so were optimistic for tomorrow. We have 15 females, 9 BO's and 6 SLW's. Not sure who's laying but there happy now we have dispatched 12 roosters leaving only 5 to badger them, (2 more to be removed next week once they decide who's best behaved)
It's been a privilege to finally see the whole cycle come together, from the frantic rush finishing the coop, the desperate search for the 'right' chickens, the 'right' hatchery, the 'right' feed, the 'right' way to process the extra roo's and now the 'right' man for our girls.

I have come to realize there is no wrong way, just what ever you feel comfortable with to get to the end product. I wish everyone best wishes to those that helped us on the way (some did not know that they helped, but they asked the question before me, I love the search function) and everyone who is patiently waiting (or more properly, impatiently waiting) for that first egg I can only offer encouragement.
Adie at 'The Fowl Mouths Farm'