Angelicsatire
Chirping
I am still waiting for my first egg! I go out and have a talk with them every night about laying me an egg!
Mine are 23 weeks and I just am dying waiting! 


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Woohoo!! Congrats! I’d say I see some blue tinge in the eggs.My family says two of these eggs ARE white. They look pale blueish to me, but it may just be the lighting in this room.
Hang in there! All good things come to those who wait, right?I am still waiting for my first egg! I go out and have a talk with them every night about laying me an egg!Mine are 23 weeks and I just am dying waiting!
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Wow, that seems early, but that’s wonderful. I’m pretty sure I’ll be “eggcited” about my first eggs as well. Bombard social media with photos and try to convince friends and family to adopt some chickens of their own.I got my first eggs from my girls almost 4 years ago, 12 black sexlinks, I'd calculated out to 19 weeks during the first week in August, they started early, the 3rd week in July..lol, I was haunting the nest box, going out almost every hour checking, found 2 little eggs, I was such a proud parent... I think I might have taken a 100 pictures of them, I still take a lot of pictures of the chickens, the eggs, etc.
From what I’ve read, chickens can end up laying in all sorts of weird places. Anywhere they feel safe is supposedly the likeliest place, and that is ideally the nesting boxes.Like you I am still waiting for the first egg. I have 20 hens that are all 18 week old with a variety of different breeds (Ameracuans, black Australians, Delaware’s, silver laced wyandottes,salmon favorelles, true whiting blue and green, polish). I was thinking by now one of them would have laid an egg. I have been looking around the coop just in case they don’t lay in the nest box. Do they usually start off going in the box?
I've ended up with a couple out in the run, found one the other day where they'd managed to get up behind a board I had covering the top of their nest boxes so they could not sleep up there, not sure how they managed that, but then I've blocked the boxes off where they should not have been able to get in, only to take them down and have chickens in the boxes..lol.. where there is a will, there is a way. They were sexlinks, so that might have had something to do with them laying early., I got them from Tractor Supply, so they might have actually been older than what I'd been told, they were nothing but fuzz when I brought them home.From what I’ve read, chickens can end up laying in all sorts of weird places. Anywhere they feel safe is supposedly the likeliest place, and that is ideally the nesting boxes.
Someone did post a photo on a threat here where an egg ended up in the waterer. I’m not sure what made the chicken do that, but it did!