Who else is waiting the impossible wait?

[KBChicks]

Looks like we may be getting an egg soon....our Comets (16 weeks), Buffs & EE's (18 weeks)are starting to get comfortable in their nesting boxes...

The comets started doing the submissive hunker down posture thing about a week ago and some of the Buffs have followed suit...
(all the EE's do is eat and poo but I know they'll come around soon)

I'm so excited I could burst!

Tonight's the night we fill some plastic eggs and set them in the nesting boxes...(I'm glad we started giving them Oyster Shell last week)

I'm aware that the first eggs or so from each may still have a soft shell but know that they'll all be beautiful and delicious soon!

I love our girls...just had to share!

 

[amsunshine]

KB, have courage & patience...my EE just started laying yesterday at 20 weeks. Sounds like some eggs are in your very near future!

 

[rosiethechicken]

After weeks of waiting, we are blessed today with 2 eggs.
Just to first eggs from 2 out of 5 BRs today. They are 20 week old.
They laid next to a platic (colorful) egg in the nest box.

 

[chickenprincess92]

My hen was in the nest box, apparently she was really checking it out she pushed out one ofthe eggs and moved all of "furniture"around

 

[fourgotten]

YAY! We just got out first egg from the young pullets that we got this spring!!!! (We started with 5 pullets, one of which turned into a cockerel, and got rid of him, then gained two adult Rhode Island Reds a week and some ago)

One of the young girls laid us an egg this morning. Dunno when, we were down picking up some diatomaceous earth and other errands. When we got back, there was this perfect (though slightly cracked) egg sitting at the bottom of the ladder to the chicken house!

I don't know which of the girls is responsible, but I have a hunch that it was our black sex link!

Tiny egg, but still thrilling!

 

[chickenprincess92]

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CONGRATS!!!

 

[chickenprincess92]

I saw one of myhens squating WHOO HOO

 

[sheaviance1]

I hope that chickenprincess92 gets an egg today, c'mon ladies, you can do it!!!

 

[Randallt]

My New Hampshire Reds are 18 weeks. We have 22 hens and 6 Roos with 3 Buff hens. I didnt make the wait so I got the 3 Buff laying hens for eggs/training.

 

[Brahma Bantam Boy]

The wait begins. My two brahma bantam girls are 10 weeks old, so a fair while to wait. Is there any way to bring it on sooner without any risk to chickeny health, or is it a case of wait and see?