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Please excuse my over the top enthusiasm, but here's our very first egg ever! This is so exciting! One of our hens laid it in their pen this morning sometime between 6-ish and 10:30. I already learned about **not** washing eggs, but can I lightly brush off the grass? And I should store it in an airtight container right? Not sure about refrigeration though.
Also, we have five hens and don't know which one it was. Four are about 5 1/2 to 6 months old; they are a Barred Rock, a Rhode Island Red, a Cinnamon Queen and an Amberlink. The fifth is a little younger - between 5 and 5 1/2 months and smaller. She was given to us and is an orphan from a stray dog attack and we don't know what kind she is. Anyway, of the four known breeds, is one of them more likely, based on how fast/slow they mature, to have laid this egg? A picture is attached and the egg weighs 1.6 oz. I'd like to give her an extra blueberry!
This is so exciting!
Thanks for such huge volume of helpful information here!
Also, we have five hens and don't know which one it was. Four are about 5 1/2 to 6 months old; they are a Barred Rock, a Rhode Island Red, a Cinnamon Queen and an Amberlink. The fifth is a little younger - between 5 and 5 1/2 months and smaller. She was given to us and is an orphan from a stray dog attack and we don't know what kind she is. Anyway, of the four known breeds, is one of them more likely, based on how fast/slow they mature, to have laid this egg? A picture is attached and the egg weighs 1.6 oz. I'd like to give her an extra blueberry!
This is so exciting!
Thanks for such huge volume of helpful information here!