Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[ron8072]

Congrats! I am getting 4 most days and 6 some days. 11 hens and 2 roosters!

Enough that I am going to begin dating them with a sharpie. Seems like, even if refrigerated, you have 30 days to consume them. Since I am nearing the 30 day since mine started laying, I need to do that.

Good Luck with yours!

 

[hpyfmly]

We came back from camp and found a surprise!! These are from my Red Sexlink. She is the only one laying, but she's about a month early! Nonetheless, we are so excited!!

 

[JMarch]

ok- here's the yolk colors! The two little ones are from the new layer. The other is store bought- LOVE a bright, orange yolk!

 

[dharmasister]

ok- here's the yolk colors! The two little ones are from the new layer. The other is store bought- LOVE a bright, orange yolk!




WOW!!! Homegrown eggs sure do look more vibrant and nutritious than store bought!! Lovely eggs, congrats!!

 

[Quickster]

Congrats! I am getting 4 most days and 6 some days. 11 hens and 2 roosters!

Enough that I am going to begin dating them with a sharpie. Seems like, even if refrigerated, you have 30 days to consume them. Since I am nearing the 30 day since mine started laying, I need to do that.

Good Luck with yours!

You have more than 30 days to eat fresh eggs, refrigerated or not.

 

[dharmasister]

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I don't wash mine, just place them in a bowl on my counter. I would check with some of the older members about marking them with a sharpie. If you wash your eggs they are porous. Idk if they'd absorb the ink.

 

[Blooie]

Congrats! I am getting 4 most days and 6 some days. 11 hens and 2 roosters!

Enough that I am going to begin dating them with a sharpie. Seems like, even if refrigerated, you have 30 days to consume them. Since I am nearing the 30 day since mine started laying, I need to do that.

Good Luck with yours!

Might I recommend marking the dates on them with a pencil instead of a sharpie? The dates are still clear and legible but I read on here somewhere that the chemical in the Sharpie might get into the egg. I don't know if that's true or not, but I've been using a pencil since June 28, when we got our first egg, and it's worked great! And you can use the eggs past 30 days.....we just ate some for breakfast that were laid on June 30 and they were perfect - although a little on the small side!

The pencil markings are easy to read and I put them on the more rounded end of the egg so I can see the dates at a glance in the cartons.

 

[kittykitty30]

My first eggs. A very old pic

 

[Sandywitch]

I got some of these myself when the girls started laying. In fact, these were both from the same chicken, and were just a few hours apart.....I know it was the same hen because it was when they were out for foraging time and I physically saw her struggle to lay them and saw them come out of her. That was Beatrice....and I got 2 more from her over the next couple of days. I had posted this on another forum to ask if she should be culled because she was struggling so much.
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I didn't cull her - and this is what she's giving me now:



That egg was NOT a double yoker, and it weighed a very respectable 78 grams. So relax - your girl is just trying to sync her entire, complicated system and they generally get past that "rubber egg" stage, although getting them anytime even after they've been laying for awhile isn't unusual.

I'm very new to all this, but we dry our girls' egg shells, toss them into a mini processor and crumble them all up, and put them into a separate bowl for them. I've heard they only eat that when they actually need it, just like gravel. Now we got some oyster shell and mix them together. All four of the girls are laying now, so the crushed egg shells were going awfully fast!

 

[tntchix]

Two new eggs today. The other Isa is starting to lay, (I think) unless the eggs can get smaller again after a full size

and a tiny speckled one from who knows which one?