WHOSE EGG??

Update: This morning I saw Peach (21 week old Prod. Red) go into the middle egg box around 7 am. Yesterday's egg was laid in the same place around 6 am. This would fit the 25 hours between egg rule.
Here's an updated photo of all 5 first eggs. They are in order of appearance from left to right.



Any thoughts from anyone? Do you think these were all laid by the same bird? Only egg #2 was laid in a different box. See my first post for more details if you want to know more before making your guesses. Thank you for any feedback:)

I would guess that all 5 were laid by the same chicken. It can take a little while to work out all the kinks when a pullet first starts laying, resulting in eggs that look different from one day to the next. Congrats on your first eggs!
 
Thanks so much for the responses! I was starting to feel like I was talking to myself :)
I like this game, too. I don't have a picture of all 6 (now 7) eggs together because we ate the first 5 on Saturday. 6 & 7 do have the same shape, wrinkled ends and no spots like the first 2 and the 5th.
I don't know why but I'm obsessed with finding out who is doing what in that hen house!
I am kinda thinking it might be that all the eggs were laid by Peach but if they were different pullets then is it normal for it to have been 3 (or more) days since they've laid?
 
Pullets start off irregular, both in size and timing. There are some who just start right off with a normal size and regular times. When my current flock started one laid I waited six days for the next got two and another wait of four days. Took more than a month to get to five or six a week per bird.
 
We got two eggs in one day today. That definitely means that we have two chickens laying, right? I saw Peach go in and lay around 9:30 this morning and we collected that egg. Then around 2 pm we checked again and we found another egg.
Here's a photo of three most recent eggs. The first two (from left to right) were laid by Peach (one yesterday and one this morning) the third egg was laid after 9:30 today and before 2. Does it look like a different chicken's than Peach's? The first two have those wrinkled ends again, too. All of Peach's eggs, so far have had those wrinkles on the narrow ends.
My son, Lucas, says that in order to find out we should just see which egg fits back into which chicken!







 
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Just from the color difference I'd guess they are from 3 different chickens. It is very unusual for a chicken to lay two eggs in one day; the normal cycle is about 25 hours.

I'll bet you'll remember your son's suggestion 20 years from now.... very cute.
 

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