So EGG cited

[HenHouse4Life]

 

[Coop Z-ville]

Lovely eggs!

 

[Rockhill Flock Rocks]

so been there, I have had chickens for years, and when my 3 pullets all laid on the same day, I cheered!

Stupid question here. What exactly is the difference between pullet and hen?

 

[Melky]

I'm so darn exited I've got to tell someone...my Miss Martha, black Australorp hen laid her first and second eggs today! I'd given up on her and Miss Dixie Chick, Americauna. I thought my husband was joking and he thought I bought another fake egg. Then I went to get my phone, wanted to document this momentous occasion, quickly took a picture since she wasn't sitting on it. Then turned around to thank her for the lovely egg AND there was another one on the yard ground! It was warm. Pretty sure it wasn't Miss Dixie I think she will lay blue or green eggs someday... maybe.

I want to tell everybody! Its crazy the way I feel. LoL I don't know why, but maybe because I put her in my brand new larger coop with my 11, nine week olds babies. She wasn't in with Miss Dixie and wasn't stressed... maybe or she enjoyed the much larger coop. I don't know and I don't care...just so happy I've got 2 eggs today!

I'd really love to share a few pictures, but can't seem to figure it out. If anyone reads this and knows how to add pictures from my phone gallery, please tell me! I'm so brand new, I'm not even sure I did this right. Thanks for reading and letting me share! Anyways.. I'm happy!

Congratulations!


Oh I want to do the egg dance soon! Mine are between 16-17 weeks. Have on oyster shell with good organic feed and praying I don’t have to wait till spring. I think there is hope for mine yet.

 

[Melky]

Stupid question here. What exactly is the difference between pullet and hen?

Females are pullets until a year of age then a hen as adults. Think pre-adult. I think of them as juveniles or adolescents.

 

[WVduckchick]

Congrats!! It never gets old when new girls start laying.

The bad part is having pullets in with hens and you don't know when a pullet starts. This year I have 2 new pens, it was just as much fun to find new eggs from them!

 

[Mrs. K]

Usually pullet eggs are quite a bit smaller than a hen's egg, but quickly catch up. The maddest I ever saw my grandmother, who was the farm wife that provided a lot for the family with the egg money.... was she went into a grocery store, and they were selling diet eggs for a premium... little pullet eggs. She was so mad cause they discounted them when they bought them from her.

 

[aart]

The bad part is having pullets in with hens and you don't know when a pullet starts. This year I have 2 new pens, it was just as much fun to find new eggs from them!

Usually pullet eggs are smaller enough to know.....but true, have a pullet now that may be laying large enough now to not be able to tell from hens eggs.

I still thrill to the new pullets beginning to lay....and a freshly laid egg still warm enough to warm my bare hand in winter.

 

[WVduckchick]

Usually pullet eggs are smaller enough to know.....but true, have a pullet now that may be laying large enough now to not be able to tell from hens eggs.

I still thrill to the new pullets beginning to lay....and a freshly laid egg still warm enough to warm my bare hand in winter.

Shoot, I have 99% bantams, and their egg sizes vary so much, I almost forgot what “normal” sized eggs are like!
I have a few older serama hens that still lay smaller eggs than their daughters! Bantam cochins too. They really lay a range of sizes.