Although we are new to the backyard hen club, we have been eggerly waiting and anticipating our first egg. Yesterday, husband was home early and was ear witness to the joyful event. He said it sounded like one of the girls was hurt or in some kind of trouble, so he and the dogs went in search of the commotion. They headed out to the back deck, and only counted 3 of the 4 girls on the spa deck. Still searching for the source of the screaming, he and the dogs ventured to the lower decks. He witnessed Kernal Nugget coming out of the Coop, all disheveled with feathers all asunder... He checked in the coop and there it was. The best looking brown egg he had ever seen...