Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[itlog]

28weeks and I got my first egg today from one of my three Easter Egger Bantams. It was soooo fun finding it this morning... I had to look twice to believe what I was seeing. For awhile there I thought I had dud chickens. I am glad they deposit more than just poop

 

[bobk]

My 9 girls where 18 weeks on Thursday. So I took the cover off of their nesting boxes and lo and behold today I got my first 2 eggs!! they look to be good quality with thick shells.
I still have them on grower feed ,in fact I have a full bag left. do I switch them to layer feed right away or can I mix the grower and layer to use it all up? I am feeding free choice oyster shells starting today.

 

[Hooligans7]

My 9 girls where 18 weeks on Thursday. So I took the cover off of their nesting boxes and lo and behold today I got my first 2 eggs!! they look to be good quality with thick shells.
I still have them on grower feed ,in fact I have a full bag left. do I switch them to layer feed right away or can I mix the grower and layer to use it all up? I am feeding free choice oyster shells starting today.

bobk, usually the only difference between grower feed and layer feed is the calcium. They both have at least 16% protein, with adequate carbs, fat, vitamins and minerals, but the layer feed has added calcium needed for the shells. Therefore, you have three options: switch to the layer feed, continue with grower feed and offer the free-choice calcium, or mix the two types of feed and offer the calcium.

I mixed the feed and my chickens didn't mind at all. I also recycle shells by baking them, then breaking them up very small and offering them free choice. When you finally use up the grower feed and switch 100% to the layer feed, then you no longer need to offer any extra calcium, although some people do.

 

[shannondee12]

My first ever! My 16 week old Buff Orp named wingnut. This was Christmas eve. Since then she has laid every day.

 

[HouseKat]

We got our first Easter Egger egg today:


The color didn't come across well in the photo, but it's mint green.

 

[Lifestudent]

Carney, our araucana, laid her first eggs this week. She laid this one Friday.



She laid this one Sunday morning.



Here's her picture.



She seemed like she was a little sleepy when I took this picture.

 

[bravevline]

my duck laid this egg thus beating all the other birds to it!

 

[sandovaljose214]

All the egg pics are cute

 

[Critter Crue]

We have raised 2 chickens up from 1 week old chicks, this is a first for us. We have older hens that we adopted at the same time and have been getting eggs since July. This is our very first egg from our EE chick Ginger.


We had hoped she'd lay blue, but this is such a lovely green, and our first, so it is hardly disappointing.



This was taken at 24 weeks. She is over 27 weeks now and laid her egg on the 27th of December. Merry Christmas to me!!

 

[hosspak]

We have raised 2 chickens up from 1 week old chicks, this is a first for us. We have older hens that we adopted at the same time and have been getting eggs since July. This is our very first egg from our EE chick Ginger.


We had hoped she'd lay blue, but this is such a lovely green, and our first, so it is hardly disappointing.



This was taken at 24 weeks. She is over 27 weeks now and laid her egg on the 27th of December. Merry Christmas to me!!

That looks like a very nice olive green egger....