Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Chick1043]

Not exactly MY first but my Ameracauna bantams first
Stormy-

Stormys 1st egg!!

 

[Lucretia]

My White Leghorn, Tilly, officially won the race to First Egg among my young flock! Here it is!

Here she is before she got her big old comb and wattles:

 

[chickenstricken]

The egg

The chicken

She's only about 17 weeks old, so this was a surprise.

 

[spcurtiss]

Got our first egg today

Here are the the ladies enjoying our pumpkins

 

[Sharksandguitars]

I got my first eggs today! 2 of them. Not sure which hens laid them though. I suspect either my Cochin, Brahma or Rhode Island Red.


Right outta the box

Cleaned and Shiny

All my non-silkie chickens

Possible Suspect (Brahma) #1

Possible Suspects 2 and 3 (Cochin and RIR)

 

[Sharksandguitars]

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Oh no! That is from your Cuckoo Marans? I thought they laid chocolate brown eggs... now I have 4 suspects for my first eggs.

 

[Lightfoote]

Well, I've read many "first egg" stories here on BYC...everything from "fart/air" eggs, to near-perfectly round eggs, soft-shelled "wet leather" eggs - sometimes torn open, rough/grainy eggshells, eggs with little or no yolk, etc...So I was fairly prepared for the first egg in my backyard to be an oddity of almost any sort. I have Black Australorps (3 pullets hatched sometime between late May and early June, I think) among others, and I was starting to be concerned about late/non-layers, although with all the maturing signs I was seeing, I was telling others (and myself, for reassurance) that I expected the first egg sometime between Hallowe'en and Thanksgiving...

The morning of Sunday the 20th when I went to feed & check all the birds, one of those three was acting odd - behaviour I took to be "pre-laying/laying" (hopefully). I checked around the run, but found no indication of an egg already laid, so I went to church as normal. A couple of hours later, after some good coffee and doughnuts and conversation, I returned home, got into my knock-around clothes and headed to the back yard for a quick recon. I cannot describe where it was (will have to take/add a pic later for that), but here is what I found just after noontime, still warm to the touch!

I added other common items to the frame for size/perspective...but look at that beauty! Smooth, hard shell, normal egg-shaped oval, no blemishes...good consistent colour. My pullet laid an almost perfectly normal egg (on the small side of 'medium')! Hurray!

And they were just getting started...Monday as I was outside working on the henhouse, I noticed more "pre/laying" behaviours, and my patience was further rewarded - another egg landed between 2:45 and 3:00 PM...pictured here on the left with the first egg.

Notice the size is similar, but the second egg has a perceptibly darker brown shell. I believe I have two pullets out of three "up and running"...

They all skipped Tuesday...just mailed it in, but on Wednesday around 1:00 to 1:10 PM, egg #3, shown here with the first two...

Clearly there are at least two producing Aussie pullets at this point...I have not taken more pics (yet) but the girls skipped Thursday (Thanksgiving, you know - they were thankful not to be turkeys!) and resumed bright and early on Friday with an egg at straight up 8:00 AM (I actually heard that one drop onto an OSB plank!) a Saturday egg at 1:55 PM, another 8:00 AM egg on Sunday, and TWO eggs on Monday the 28th - an "AM" and a "PM"...and then a single Tuesday at 1:50 PM

That's nine eggs in ten days! (I'll add pics to the thread later on...will probably have another egg or two tomorrow)

This makes the waiting worthwhile - along with all the work and prep I have put in, it now appears I have some real producers here - I only wish I had twice as many Aussie pullets! However, since I have a very studly Aussie Roo, who has already been covering his girls consistently, I am thinking I may incubate some eggs down the line and select for pullet hatchlings to reach that goal.

I have read from many on BYC NOT to try incubating the first eggs from young pullets, so I will not - however, does anyone have a clear idea how long it is preferable to wait before I can set aside their eggs for hatching? Three weeks...six? I'd like to be able to have several more Aussie pullets at P.O.L. by mid 2012...is that a fair and possible goal, or should I wait longer?

Lightfoote

 

[noodlegirl]

Zoey layed her first egg today!!! We adopted them on 11/4 & the hatchers said they were 5 1/2 months old. We've been on pins & needles since Sat/Sun when she started squatting for us.

Here's the girl: See how red her comb & waddles are.

Our other two girls appear less mature without the full comb but maybe by Christmas.

 

[Kaugomu]

The first from our flock - not sure if this is the BR or the RSL since they both lay brown..

The compairison shot, "homemade" first brown egg next to a store bought large white egg.

These were 3 weeks ago, been getting an egg almost every day since, still waiting on the other two to lay!

Went out to collect today's egg just after posting these pictures, and *surprise* two eggs in the next box! So, here's today's "first egg" which I think is the BR and the other egg which I think is our RSL now that I can compair them side by side.

Now I can't wait for the splash of blue to show up from the EE!

 

[jofrost]

Here's my first from a couple days ago

from our Americauna "Belle" ...She laid her second one today