We got our first egg today. Actually we got two. Dh found one in the run part of the coop. If you can believe this, I had to actually tell him to go get it and bring it inside. He was just going to leave it there. When he went back to get it, he found another in the coop part. So not sure how long that has been there, but surely not too long!
Very eggciting. I was thinking we wouldn't get any eggs til spring since it had gotten so late. We are fairly north so we're in darkness by 4pm now and it's not light until after 7 in the morning.
Eggs - Wow!
Our first egg!
Congrats!
Congratulations Gwen: It is exciting and you must take pic's of them, and your right they could not have been there to long. I think I smell breakfast. Yum. Have a great day and enjoy the blessings of you girls. Hay
Congratulations! Yes.. you need pictures!
Yes pictures please... no matter how big or small...
You can save you first egg and cover it with gold or silver foil--"Vark" at the Indian food store.
I always meant to--I kept the egg, but it is now covered in dust.
oo nice idea Catscan..
Gwendalou, were they tiny? We are getting the most adorable little dark eggs from our new Cuckoo Marans, and the Cherry Eggers are also producing miniature paler ones. But already they're becoming larger. My GD loves the tiny ones, though, and they look so funny in the egg cartons. You almost want to put two in each cell.
We got our chicks the first week in July; when did you get yours?
A great big hearty congrats!!! Eggs are so fun. What kind of chickens do you have? Mine are a mixed lot but none of them are uppity about it. :)
Billy wolfed down our first egg... LOL he was really eggcited...
++Cackle++
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Congratulations!! That first egg is so exciting. Do you have nesting boxes set up for them? To train them to go in the box we put a golf ball in and that worked. We do have one that on occasion will lay it out in the run.
congrats! I also recently got my first egg so I get the excitement! pictures please, egg pictures are my favorite :-)
I haven't gotten the nesting boxes set up. I've been sick in bed for 4 days! I have to get out there and do that.
the eggs weren't as small as I thought they'd be.
I have 2 buff orpingtons and one each black star, plymouth rock, white rock, black astrolorp, and dominique. We haven't found anymore eggs since the first two. But the next day I was outside for a few minutes and heard a lot of loud clucking, of a nature I hadn't heard before, and figured one had just laid another egg. But there was nothing in the coop.
They were hatched on June 28 so are a little over 5 months old.
I hope you're feeling better now! That doesn't sound like much fun.
They should definitely be starting to lay by now but they may not know where to deposit them, so it becomes a treasure hunt.
I was told that chickens that come into maturity in the fall/winter time often won't lay until the spring, but then they can continue to lay over a longer lifetime. Our days are pretty short now, so I had thought that we might not get any eggs til spring. But I was obviously wrong!
I've heard that too, Gwendalou...but I guess it is an individual thing.