Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[chicksurreal]

First egg from Cher, my white Leghorn.

Congratulations! Beautiful egg and chicken!

 

[sunflower4you]

Here is the first egg from our red star RED. She layer it a week ago (or so) today. Cool that it was a double yolk! She has layered one everyday since except for one day.

a couple questions:

1. Do your hens sound off every time the lay an egg? She is so loud before and after. Since she started one of the other red stars has too. Now she is just as loud and they scream together for a little while.

2. How can i get Goldie out of the bucket and into the nesting box??? She is crazy and can't want until i bring out the bucket for her.

Awesome double yolker! A lot of people use a bucket on its side just like that for nesting boxes. Maybe you can put the bucket next to the boxes so you don't have to run around collecting eggs? My first layer was laying on the coop floor UNDER the nest boxes and I just put a golf ball (fake egg) in each box and she laid in one of the boxes the next day. If they are laying in a place like that (under the boxes) you could put a box or something there to block the area.

 

[chicksurreal]

Yay! First egg from one of our Brown Leghorns, Flame! She'll be 22 weeks old on Monday. She spent about 2 hours in a nesting box, then walked out and dropped it in the leaves out in the run. It's tiny, but so is she. Lol!

 

[Kavika]

Beautiful brown leghorn. Our white leghorn, Cher, gifted us another egg today. I look forward to getting eggs from our flock every day.

 

[chicksurreal]

Beautiful brown leghorn. Our white leghorn, Cher, gifted us another egg today. I look forward to getting eggs from our flock every day.

Thanks!

I LOVE the Leghorns, We got two Brown Leghorns in our last order and I am amazed at how gorgeous they are, so colorful and really sweet. A little skittish, but that's okay, I'm used to our SS Hamburgs who are crazy flighty.

I look forward to eggs every day, it IS like a gift they are giving you.

Another one of the pullets laid an egg today and I'm not sure who it was, I feel disappointed because I wasn't there for their first egg. I think it might have been one of the Silver Laced Wyandottes because it's brown. I'll have to be more vigilant while the girls are getting into their egg-laying groove. There are only 27 of them. LOL!!!

 

[Beer can]

I have two brown leghorns, one of them is giving huge double yolkers a few times a week, that one I think weighed 84grams if I remember right, looked like a turkey egg!

 

[chicksurreal]

I have two brown leghorns, one of them is giving huge double yolkers a few times a week, that one I think weighed 84grams if I remember right, looked like a turkey egg!

Wow! Gorgeous eggs!

I expect that my Brown Leghorns will lay larger eggs as they get older, but this one was tiny! Lol!

 

[Beer can]

Mine just started laying this winter, a couple months ago, and I'm getting humoungus eggs, I thought they didn't do that until after their first molt.

 

[duluthralphie]

Mine just started laying this winter, a couple months ago, and I'm getting humoungus eggs, I thought they didn't do that until after their first molt.

Mine just started a couple months ago and I get some humongous eggs also. I was just putting some in a carton for a customer and I noticed a large one, I candled it, it is not a double yolk from what I can tell. I weighed it and it was 2.55 ounces. I have many over 2.45 ounces.

 

[gotthefever]

The one closest to the "small" storebought is her first, clockwise til today at 3.

Bless her little backyard quality, optical illusion blurry, barred rock self! She didn't make me wait any longer, like 'til spring..or February... Jan 22 in NE PA, no light, no heat...began egg a day routine!

Today she hiked herself across the yard in the snow to lay in the coop.

She is also the gal, who comes to greet me and follow me around, checking in all the time. "I love her" (a little more than the dog right now, don't tell