What are the eggs supposed to be like the First Few Days/Weeks of Egg Laying?

[Basia St Clair]

UPDATE: DAY 4 and 5
Here is the progression of egg characteristics:

Day 1: two eggs laid at once with extremely thin shells. She laid under the perch, in a lot of chicken poop. I threw them in the compost.

Day 2: perfect medium egg laid in the nesting box. Not sure what i am going to do with it because, as my first, i don't think i can eat it! Is there a tradition around your very first egg ever? Keep it? Color it? Take a picture, get over it and eat it anyway?

Day 3: Yolk and white of egg with no shell at all. It looked exactly like a cracked open egg. She kinda pooped it out in the run. There was a big storm here last night as remnants of Laura are impacting my area. My Asian Black started eating it and I promptly stopped her and cleaned up the egg. I don't want them accustom to eating Their eggs.

Day 4: No egg or evidence of an egg that i could find.

Day 5: A BEAUTIFUL egg, bigger than Day 2. Ate it hours after it was laid and it was amazing!!! My SIL said no sulfur taste. I think that is it. My nephew said it tasted like an "egg on steriods" - like what you would think an egg should taste like, not like the almost tasteless eggs from the store.

The other two Hens still not laying

 

[ADKcluckers]

It is amazing the difference in flavor the first time you try fresh home-raised eggs from healthy chickens

 

[Chick-n-duck mom]

Try adding calcium to their diet...oysters shells or crushed up egg shells. It will not make them eat their own eggs. They may eat their own eggs because they are calcium deficient, but it’s not normal or common from my limited experience (I feed mine their own crushed up shells minus the membrane) and from what I’ve read. When ours started laying (right on time), their eggs were on the smaller side but had (have) good shells. They have laid an egg every day consistently since they began, and now they are normal large eggs. They haven’t missed a day. Our Isa Browns started laying the end of July followed by our Golden Comet a few days later and our Tetra Tints about the same time. Our RIRs are squatting, so any day now.

 

[Basia St Clair]

Rounding Out the Week - DAY 6
Here is the progression of egg characteristics:

Day 1: two eggs laid at once with extremely thin shells. She laid under the perch, in a lot of chicken poop. I threw them in the compost.

Day 2: perfect medium egg laid in the nesting box. Not sure what i am going to do with it because, as my first, i don't think i can eat it! Is there a tradition around your very first egg ever? Keep it? Color it? Take a picture, get over it and eat it anyway?

Day 3: Yolk and white of egg with no shell at all. It looked exactly like a cracked open egg. She kinda pooped it out in the run. There was a big storm here last night as remnants of Laura are impacting my area. My Asian Black started eating it and I promptly stopped her and cleaned up the egg. I don't want them accustom to eating Their eggs.

Day 4: No egg or evidence of an egg that i could find.

Day 5: A BEAUTIFUL egg, bigger than Day 2. Ate it hours after it was laid and it was amazing!!! My SIL said no sulfur taste. I think that is it. My nephew said it tasted like an "egg on steriods" - like what you would think an egg should taste like, not like the almost tasteless eggs from the store.

Day 6: Another egg in the nest!!! Small egg this time, but with a great solid shell. Her eggs are truly beautiful! Saving up eggs laid this week to take to my brothers and share what a "real" egg taste like

The other two Hens still not laying! I was hoping within the week they would catch up. The second ISA Brown is starting to squat - so it should be soon. The Asian Black still not interested!!!!

PS - they do have free choice oyster shell. The mostly free range but I provide both Scratch and Peck and Small Pet Select Layer feed. Trying to figure out which one they like beset

 

[Chick-n-duck mom]

Btw, here’s a pic of our first egg. I was at work, and my girls took this pic and sent it to me. I almost left to come home I was so excited!

 

[Basia St Clair]

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Btw, here’s a pic of our first egg. I was at work, and my girls took this pic and sent it to me. I almost left to come home I was so excited!View attachment 2317022

Beautiful egg. It is so exciting~~~~~ and they taste WAY better! I'm doing the first egg dance right beside you!!! Thanks for the post

 

[Basia St Clair]

And........MY FIRST WEEK of EGG LAYING - in the books! See below picture for my daily updates.

Four beautiful eggs, Day 2 missing from pictures because we ate that one At this point each egg is worth about $500.00 in investment - but its priceless for me. Never, ever, EVER, EVER, imagined I could do this! This process is so rewarding!

My First week:

Day 1: two eggs laid at once with extremely thin shells. She laid under the perch, in a lot of chicken poop. I threw them in the compost.

Day 2: perfect medium egg (first egg to the left in picture) laid in the nesting box. Not sure what i am going to do with it because, as my first, i don't think i can eat it! Is there a tradition around your very first egg ever? Keep it? Color it? Take a picture, get over it and eat it anyway?

Day 3: Yolk and white of egg with no shell at all. It looked exactly like a cracked open egg. She kinda pooped it out in the run. There was a big storm here last night as remnants of Laura are impacting my area. My Asian Black started eating it and I promptly stopped her and cleaned up the egg. I don't want them accustom to eating Their eggs.

Day 4: No egg or evidence of an egg that i could find.

Day 5: A BEAUTIFUL egg, bigger than Day 2. (we ate it, not pictured )Ate it hours after it was laid and it was amazing!!! My SIL said no sulfur taste. I think that is it. My nephew said it tasted like an "egg on steriods" - like what you would think an egg should taste like, not like the almost tasteless eggs from the store.

Day 6: Another egg in the nest!!! Small egg this time (egg in the middle), but with a great solid shell. Her eggs are truly beautiful! Saving up eggs laid this week to take to my brothers and share what a "real" egg taste like

Day 7: Another small egg in the nest!!!!! Egg on the right in picture. Almost exact size as yesterdays. On the egg scale these are small eggs, but I'm OK with that. The process has been more than rewarding.



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[Basia St Clair]

PS: Thanks everyone for all the advice on the first week of egg laying. I was so freaked out that first day. Now I'm almost and expert LOL!

 

[Sally PB]

I blew out the shell of my first egg. Now it's in a beautiful little sugar bowl my grandmother gave me. A treasure forever!

I found my first egg out in the run. The second was in the bedding near the pop door. I put a board there, and she just moved down about two feet. I took one of the nesting boxes down from where they were on the wall and put that in the spot where she had laid her second egg. Yay! she figured it out! The others followed. I have been raising the box bit by bit, to get it back to the height it was on the wall, so it doesn't take up floor space.

All the eggs have been peewee/small size by weight except for two that were double yolks and qualified as large and extra large. I weigh them on a digital kitchen scale. I placed a rubber band on the scale to corral the eggs so they don't roll off.

Except for one membrane only shell and one with no shell, they seem to have enough calcium. Those two were in the first few days of laying, and fortunately, the yolk on the no shell was intact, so nobody has tasted them. Except me and my husband...

 

[Basia St Clair]

I blew out the shell of my first egg. Now it's in a beautiful little sugar bowl my grandmother gave me. A treasure forever!

I found my first egg out in the run. The second was in the bedding near the pop door. I put a board there, and she just moved down about two feet. I took one of the nesting boxes down from where they were on the wall and put that in the spot where she had laid her second egg. Yay! she figured it out! The others followed. I have been raising the box bit by bit, to get it back to the height it was on the wall, so it doesn't take up floor space.

All the eggs have been peewee/small size by weight except for two that were double yolks and qualified as large and extra large. I weigh them on a digital kitchen scale. I placed a rubber band on the scale to corral the eggs so they don't roll off.

Except for one membrane only shell and one with no shell, they seem to have enough calcium. Those two were in the first few days of laying, and fortunately, the yolk on the no shell was intact, so nobody has tasted them. Except me and my husband...

What a great idea. I think i will try blowing out the egg. Never done it before. Although, having chickens is making me try many many new things

Thanks for the input. Every little bit helps to realize I'm raising healthy, normal Hens