SEVEN first-time egglayers in two days! Plus neat speckled egg....

[Woofless]

Seven of my hens have laid their first eggs in the span of two days!! I posted my first egg pic yesterday in the first egg thread.

This morning at about 10:30 I found these (the one on the right is yesterday's):

Then this afternoon at 5 PM, I went out and found FOUR more, including this neat speckled brown one which was just laying by the waterer:

I'll be checking one more time before sunset. Most of my brown sex-links are spending a lot of time in the nest boxes...they and my 3 white leghorns are the oldest. I am SO excited!!!

So how about it, have any of you had your hens start laying within days of one another? And has anyone seen a speckled egg like this out of a plain old feed-store sex link bird?? Or is it possible one of my EE's laid it?? The EE's are only 16 weeks, the red & whites are 18 weeks. Either way I really hope that speckling is going to be permanent and isn't just a first-egg fluke, it's really interesting looking!!

Well, I'm off to make myself an omelet

 

[Dogfish]

2 weeks ago two started laying out of 16. A few days later 3, then 5, then 7, and now 9 are laying. All the same exact age, but 4 different breeds, 16 birds total. Tomorrow I will try to figure out who is laying and who isn't.

 

[JetBlack]

I have six chickens. The first two days, I got 8 eggs. They blitzed me.

 

[Tala]

My Red Sexlink sometimes lays brown and white speckled eggs like that. Hers aren't quite as dramatic though.
Fortunately it doesn't seem to indicate any real problmems, just a wonk in the system. On the other hand, they aren't "regular" from her, so I would expect your bird to start laying more solid brown eggs as her system matures.

 

[ekemily]

Many of my hens lay speckled eggs. I love them! Run it under some tap water and see if the speckles change color. Mine change to a deep, dark brown.

 

[BWKatz]

I'm so jealous! Mine are just 8wks old so I have awhile to wait. Probably best in all this heat.

 

[gryeyes]

With my chickens, as each "batch" of pullets reached laying status, their first eggs all arrived within a day of each other.

It's probably a lot like wimmin living together; their cycles tend to synchronize.

 

[nuts4chickens]

That's awesome! First eggs are so much fun!!!! I have some standard pullets that are about 5 weeks old right now and I can't wait for them to start laying! I ordered some cali whites, orloffs, BR's, EE's, sex links, and welsummers so I am hoping maybe around Thanksgiving I might start getting a rainbow of green, blue, white, brown, and dark brown eggs! I can hardly wait! That speckled egg is gorgeous! Congratulations!!!!!