The Pita Pinta Asturiana

[Ballerina Bird]

Nice!

One my my pullets was singing the egg song today.

It is usually a week after the egg squat before the first egg. How exciting!

They are still pullets until a year old--You will have cute little pullet eggs.

It is exciting! That's great that one of your pullets was singing the egg song, too!

 

[ronott1]

It is exciting! That's great that one of your pullets was singing the egg song, too!

I found a pullet egg today--the first egg from one of my pullets--They are from my breeding program!

This one is the sister to the two pullets that you have:



The first egg is a Marans x EE, the second egg is from an Arkansas Blue pullet and the little egg on the right is the first egg from a pp pullet.

It amazes me how the chickens react to the hours of daylight getting longer.

 

[caychris]

Think I got my first PP pullet egg over the weekend myself. Id been getting a few medium size eggs earlier so not sure who was laying but finally got a slightly malformed small egg so Im thinking it was hers.

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I found a pullet egg today--the first egg from one of my pullets--They are from my breeding program!

This one is the sister to the two pullets that you have:



The first egg is a Marans x EE, the second egg is from an Arkansas Blue pullet and the little egg on the right is the first egg from a pp pullet.

It amazes me how the chickens react to the hours of daylight getting longer.

That is so exciting! And it's great to see the pics. How beautiful all the colors are!

 

[dldolan]

Those first eggs are so exciting! Yippee!

 

[Ballerina Bird]

First pita pinta egg!!! I believe this is Odette's. Laid in the coop, though not in the nesting box (background here is my kitchen countertop, not coop floor!).

 

[PetRock]

First pita pinta egg!!! I believe this is Odette's. Laid in the coop, though not in the nesting box (background here is my kitchen countertop, not coop floor!).

Whoo hoo!!!

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I scrambled it, took a bite, and gave the rest back to the girls -- it was a tough day for them.

 

[ronott1]

First pita pinta egg!!! I believe this is Odette's. Laid in the coop, though not in the nesting box (background here is my kitchen countertop, not coop floor!).

That is a very pretty egg!

I scrambled it, took a bite, and gave the rest back to the girls -- it was a tough day for them.

Sounds like a story here.

Was the egg laying tough on her?

 

[Ballerina Bird]

That is a very pretty egg!

Sounds like a story here.

Was the egg laying tough on her?

LOL, love the popcorn!

Odette has spent the last couple of days pacing up and down between the coop and the run, all day long, scratching around but not laying, and I started to get worried that she was having trouble. But I posted a question to BYC about it and lots of people sent their very cute and reassuring stories about what their pullets did before they started laying, so then I felt better. At first Odile would follow her back up to the coop, but then she stopped. But then this afternoon, she followed her up again -- I wonder if she knew this was the big moment. They were up there for a while, then came back down. I went out to the coop, not expecting to see anything, and there was the egg! I couldn't believe it was a real egg and not the wooden one I had put in there! I actually put them both in my hands and weighed them against each other, mainly because I think I was just so shocked to find an actual egg. Also, as you say, it's so pretty that I think in some reptilian part of my brain I thought another wooden egg had magically appeared; it seemed so perfect. Crazy, right? Then, I sort of didn't believe it would be an egg inside when I cracked it open. But it was!! So cool. I didn't hear the egg song, but I was listening to the score of Swan Lake (appropriate) while working on my book manuscript, so I guess that covered it up.