Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[moose]

surprise surprise!!! We have our first brown egg!! Hurray!! I wasnt expecting any until spring due to the lack of sunlight I was reading about. But I was pleasantly surprised to find this one this morning. I dont use a light in the coop, but I think one of my Comets decided to bless us anyway with her egg. They are 20 weeks old this week. I have 3 aracanas, 5 RIR's, and 4 Golden Comets.

Well I cant seem to figure out how to get a pic on here, sorry, can someone help me?

 

[moose]

Hurray!!! we have our first egg!!! I believe one of our Comets laid it last night. I wasnt expecting any eggs until spring due to the sunlight issue (I read they need 14 hours of daylight) but oh well, what a surprise!!! I look forward to many more. We have 3 aracanas, 5 RIR's, and 4 Golden Comets.

 

[donnap1967]

Congrats Moose! I went outside yesterday to clean out the coop. It was a record setting 69 degrees out and I knew we wouldn't be seeing another day like it for many months to come. I figured I would completely empty the shavings and put in fresh.

Well, I stuck my head in there and I found not one, but three little eggs in the corner!!!

Man was I surprised. I also thought I was going to have to wait until spring.

I had the nest boxes blocked off so I opened them up, put one egg in each of our two nest boxes and took egg number three in the house to brag over.

 

[moose]

thats awesome donnap1967. We had a second one this morning too. I think the same comet is the only lady laying right now. I have noticed a few more making "nest" at night as opposed to hopping on the roosting bar, maybe see some more tomorrow.

 

[mzrea]

12 hens a-laying, 12 perfect eggs

Today is the first time they laid an entire dozen all in one day.

 

[Reinbeau]

Good for you, so far the highest is 11 out of 14 hens. Three slackers out there still!

 

[donnap1967]

Beautiful eggs Mzrea! I hope you have a lot of good recipes involving eggs

 

[lisebarb]

What a great early Christmas gift!
I've been waiting four months for this and I'm so excited I could lay an egg myself.

This is from one of my Easter Eggger gals:

Put my prize into a cereal bowl next to a store-bought large egg to give you the scale:

Here's what it looks like in an egg carton:

 

[LuvinMyPeeps]

WOW - that's a beautiful green egg!!! I hope my EE lays one that pretty...I'm patiently waiting...

 

[motherbear]

Ok, here's our first. I am so excited it's silly

It's obvious it was one of our NHR hens. She was strutting around the coop making a joyous racket while all the other girls were out front.

Here's the little gem with it's store bought cousins

and in the nesting box...

Pretty eggciting!!! Now for the other 10 to start-it appears we don't have a single Roo in the bunch. They were all hatched mid to late June.