She's in the nestbox! :updated: She laid her first egg! Pictures too!

[Cocotte]

My little bantam cochin, Sprinkles is sitting in the next box right now! For the past couple of weeks or so, every morning someone has been in the nest box kicking the golf balls around, and I've been suspecting her. Its either Sprinkles or Candy doing it, they're 5 months this month and my 2 ameraucanas are only 2 months old. But Sprinkles has started squatting when I reach down to pick her up (Haha it looks kind of funny when she does it! She crouches down and kind sticks out her wings a bit like handles. I had been worried I might not recognize the 'squat' but it is pretty hard to miss) Its almost 2:30 in the afternoon, but I saw her go up into the coop a little while ago, and she hasn't come out yet and the other three girls are just sitting in the grass, so I snuck out there really quietly and peeked in the coop window, and there's Sprinkles just sitting in the nest box

She saw me peeking and said, "Bup!" and just kept sitting there. She's kicked the golf balls around again and is in a little hollowed out spot in the shavings just sitting. I'm hoping this means eggs will soon be on the way!

 

[Cocotte]

Omg she layed an egg!! I just went out to peek again, and she was still sitting in there and when she saw me she said, "brrrrk brrrk brk!" The got up out of the nest box. I went to reorganize the golf balls, and there was an egg!! Its beautiful too, and still warm

I took pictures, and I'll take more, but now I have to wait for my daughter to wake up so she can be the one to go out and collect the egg

 

[gryeyes]

That is SO cool! I can hardly wait until my two banty cochins lay eggs! Ellen (lavender) is within a month of maturing I think, while Lola (black) is only 11, maybe 12 weeks old.

Congrats!!!!

 

[Supermommy486]

Woo hoo!! Congrats!!

 

[Kansaseq]

First eggs are SO exciting; it's almost as if you laid it yourself! Congratulations and here's wishing you many more eggs over the years.

 

[Cocotte]

Thank you!


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Haha, I know! I think I'm more excited than the chicken who laid it!

 

[Cocotte]

Here is Sprinkles

And here is her first egg!

next to a quarter

and next to a jumbo store bought egg

 

[Kanders]

That is so cool. I can't wait till mine girls start laying!

 

[NWChicks]

How exciting! She and her egg are both very cute! Congrats!

 

[kjhowe77]

How exciting! Congrats!