Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

ok now that she has started laying will she layeveryday? and what do i do with the egg? how do i clean it? how do i get it ready to eat? how do i fridge it? WHAT DO I DO WITH IT??????????????????????

 

[Henicillin]

My dominant pullet, Miss Thing the Dominique, has made a somber day a little bit brighter by presenting us with our first egg! She started the egg song yesterday, and has been in and out of the nest box all morning (smart girl - we don't even have fakes in there), hanging out for a while and then coming out and singing. I went out there a few minutes ago to find her in the box and laying. She has always been a precocious girl and the leader of the pullets, so it's oddly fitting that she's the first one to lay. She's one day shy of 18 weeks old.

It's a perfect little pullet egg, and the most expensive egg I've ever seen. I'm ridiculously happy about it.

Size comparison with a Leghorn egg from one of the farms up the road:

 

[Frost Homestead]

the3ofus+oursixchicks :

ok now that she has started laying will she layeveryday? and what do i do with the egg? how do i clean it? how do i get it ready to eat? how do i fridge it? WHAT DO I DO WITH IT??????????????????????

you can put it straight in the fridge, no need to wash it. there a protective layer called a 'bloom' on the egg that keep bacteria and stuff out, if you wash it the bloom washes off. Just wash it right before you crack it open to cook it if you feel the need to wash it. Eggs technically don't have to be refrigerated, they will stay good in a bowl on your kitchen counter for about a week, or up to 6 weeks in the fridge.

no need to do anything special to it, just crack it in a pan and fry it up! oh, and she may not lay everyday but she should lay pretty often.

 

[Blueicebird]

FINALLY!!! 9-9-11!!! From My Zirze or Mercedes:

Mercedes

 

[laurie9503]

My most affectionate Hen, Rosebud, Rhode Island Red...laid our first egg today. For the last three days, she's been jumping up on my lap a lot and sitting down in my arms until I have to go somewhere else and have to let her down. She's been scratching around in the nesting boxes for the last week. At 630 am this morning, she was making the loudest bawks and squaks, I knew something was up. I let the hens plus Hemlock (rooster) into their fenced free range area. Usually, they like to stay there as long as possible. Around 730, Rosebud (and her companion, Star, the other Rhode Island Hen) had jumped the fence and ran back into the hen house. Unheard of! I went in to find her panting and squaking. Trying to leap up above the top most roosting bar, then falling down, jumping into the nesting boxes, scratching and screaming...on my!!! All the other birds were standing in the doorway horrified. Then the rooster jumped up on the nesting box to protect her, and started mimicking her squaks.

This went on for 4 hours, at which time, I thought I better do something because she was stressed and panting. So, I took her into the house and made a lukewarm bath, and submerged her far enough to cover her vent. Massaged her abdomen. She liked the bath and stopped panting. She just sat in there for the longest time (1/2 hour). Then I put some herbal salve on her vent hoping to make the way slippery for the egg. After that we went back to the hen house. She went immediately into the nesting box, scratched around, and got comfy until she laid an egg a few minutes later. It's just a tiny egg in all it's perfectness. She squacked up a storm after she laid it and drank a lot of water. Now she's back to normal. She's a good girl.

Rosebud's egg is the small one on the left

 

[the3ofus+oursixchicks]

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you can put it straight in the fridge, no need to wash it. there a protective layer called a 'bloom' on the egg that keep bacteria and stuff out, if you wash it the bloom washes off. Just wash it right before you crack it open to cook it if you feel the need to wash it. Eggs technically don't have to be refrigerated, they will stay good in a bowl on your kitchen counter for about a week, or up to 6 weeks in the fridge.

no need to do anything special to it, just crack it in a pan and fry it up! oh, and she may not lay everyday but she should lay pretty often.

6 weeks in the fridge? how come they last longer than store bought? i cant wait to start getting them everyday. i have 3 petunia the barred rock and rosey and daisey buff orpingtons. they are all supposed the same age but petunia beat them first.

 

[ChamorroChicken]

My first egg

 

[ChamorroChicken]

here is the picture that i was trying to upload, MY first EGG !!!!!!!!!!! layed by Bird Man, A speckeled sussex named by my son, Poor girl answers to it when you call for her....

 

[stcroixusvi]

Here it is! A beauty, if I do say so myself. I think it came from one of our RIRs. We have 18 pullets, and they will be 18 weeks old tomorrow! Our egg is on the right - the one on the left is, hopefully, from our last carton of purchased eggs!

 

[greensandjeans]

You know what they say, "An EGG in the hand, is worth two in the bush".

I'm happy to have this first little egg in hand from my Easter Egger named Rosemary. It is a little egg, I just happen to have little hands so it makes the egg look bigger.

Here she is enjoying some yogurt as a treat for her hard work.