I'm getting only one out of 13 but I just put in a light, and letting them out more. So I am hoping to be able to get them all going really soon. They need to get on it-they have to earn their keep. But I am happy with them all...good girls!
This is the first from one of our hens. I believe it is from one of the Speckled Sussex as she squated down when I entered the pen, rather than her and the others normal habit of moving away from me.
Yesterday's egg (the first) was found on top of a milk crate in the pen where the hens have been roosting.
I was beginning to think they wouldn't go into the coop and use the nest box.
I checked the coop and it appears that at least one has been going into the coop.
This morning I found today's egg in the nest box and know for certain which of the hens have begun to lay.
Came home from work for lunch and had a surprise waiting for me!! My first egg ever from one of my ten girls. June 18 they were brand new fuzzballs and now they are contributing members of society. I really wasn't expecting anything for at least another 2-3 weeks at the earliest. They are brown eggers from Sunnyside hatchery and I have been told by others with these birds that they are egg laying machines. Hopfully the floodgates have been opened!!