Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Xtina]

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LOL. Pullets at that age always freak me out. They do look super intense until they start looking like fat hens.

 

[rebecca10782]

Our first egg from our Barred Rock

It was so delicious

Today (her 6th egg) was a double yolk!

This is Sicilia

 

[Peepshow]

we got our first eggs on Jan 15, 09 from our red stars

Today we got our first double yolker

Not sure who this was. Most likely a red star but I think one of our Delawares started laying too

 

[fivestring]

WOOT! Today was my first ever egg from any of my chickens. I heard my BO roo going bonkers so I slipped on my shoes and ran out to the coop, thinking I would find a bird stuck in the fence or see a hawk close by. The roo was in the run clucking loudly and the BO hen was in the coop and clucking just as loud. As I approached, the hen walked out and began foraging like normal. I looked in the window, didn't see anything abnormal, then checked the nest boxes and LO and BEHOLD!!!

It was so cool to open up the nest door and see a lovely brown egg laying next to the golf ball that has been in there for weeks!!

And it made a delicious egg sandwich! Yay us! It is a brown egg, the camera flash washed the color out....

 

[77horses]

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That looks so good! Congrats and i hope you enjoyed that egg!

 

[marthalazar]

After exactly 29 weeks (to the day) one of my hens laid her first egg. She's an Easter Egger and it is a pretty grayish-green. Her first egg is on the right, with the 2 subsequent eggs getting darker. The most recent one is the darkest on the left. I am so excited! Am I the only one having problems cracking open the first eggs???

 

[ZooMummzy]

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I have this problem from time to time still especially with my banty's eggs. They are strong little things!

My EE lays green eggs too. I love them but my neighbor's aren't so sure yet. They get the strangest look on their face when they open the cartons I give them

 

[marthalazar]

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I have this problem from time to time still especially with my banty's eggs. They are strong little things!

My EE lays green eggs too. I love them but my neighbor's aren't so sure yet. They get the strangest look on their face when they open the cartons I give them

I actually didn't mean that their shells were hard. I'm having a hard time cracking them open because it's all so new and precious. I'll get over that soon enough I'm sure! I just saw a photo of someone's yummy looking egg sandwich.

 

[rebecca10782]

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I have this problem from time to time still especially with my banty's eggs. They are strong little things!

My EE lays green eggs too. I love them but my neighbor's aren't so sure yet. They get the strangest look on their face when they open the cartons I give them

I actually didn't mean that their shells were hard. I'm having a hard time cracking them open because it's all so new and precious. I'll get over that soon enough I'm sure! I just saw a photo of someone's yummy looking egg sandwich.

I did too! It was so hard to crack her first egg because it was such an amazing thing. You really don't appreciate eggs until you have chickens and learn the process of it all. We had been waiting for so long. I was afraid to crack it open and cook it wrong or break the yolk

But, it was also literally hard to crack. I guess our birds get a tremendous amount of calcium. They get tons of whole grain oatmeal.

 

[rebbetzin]

Yesterday At 22 weeks and one day.....
Lady Rosalind laid her first egg!!

Lady Rosalind 2/5/09

I was so surprised!! I was in the run with them, feeding them some dandelion greens, their all time favorite things to eat!!

I left for a few minutes, came back for some reason, looked in the run and there under the broken chair they use for a outdoor roost in their yard was a brand new little egg!!

Here it is under the chair, I had just put down a nice new layer of sand the day before.

Here are a couple of close up photos of the egg so you can get an idea of it's size.

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Now just yesterday in the morning, I put some hay and eggs in the nest box, but left the screen up so they could see into the nest box, but not get into it. They were curiously watching me from inside the coop as I arranged the straw and plastic eggs, I held up an egg and showed it to them and said "This is an egg. Pretty soon you will be making these!"

And sure enough that afternoon, I had an egg!!
Maybe I should have showed them an egg sooner!!