today one of our young black rocks laid an egg

[gunners71uk]

hooray fgirst egg lovely size

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[theabsinthefairy]

You'll be searching for egg recipes because you are overrun with them before you know it!

[Rosendula]

I'm so jealous...
....and so frustrated.....
....and so impatient....
....and...

I'm still waiting, as you probably guessed, but mine are still a bit young - about 17 weeks old I think.
How old is yours gunners?
What did the egg look like? I've heard the first ones can be mis-shapen.
Was it tiny?
Have you eaten it?
What was it like?
Was your hen really proud of herself?
Did she make a lot of noise about it?

TELL ME MORE!!!! (please)

[gunners71uk]

I'm so jealous...
....and so frustrated.....
....and so impatient....
....and...

I'm still waiting, as you probably guessed, but mine are still a bit young - about 17 weeks old I think.
How old is yours gunners?
What did the egg look like? I've heard the first ones can be mis-shapen.
Was it tiny?
Have you eaten it?
What was it like?
Was your hen really proud of herself?
Did she make a lot of noise about it?

TELL ME MORE!!!! (please)

i dunno lolabout 20 wks,fairly big and elongated med/ large no not eaten waiting for another so we can have one together. it was brown long and elong gated. i know she did a fair bit of clucking. yes quite a bit of noise as they get to lay a bit more clucking slightly diffrent and they go into coop or nest box and broody a bit

[Millymollymandy]

Yippee I hope you really enjoy it Gunners!

[JulieSherris]

I'm laughing at Rosie here - I know she can't wait to find her first egg!!

Our blackrocks are still a tad too young - as are the sussex girls, I'd say they were about 17 weeks-ish as well.

However.... we hatched a little clutch in September - 10 in total - 5 with the broody hen & 5 in the incubator... we lost one to a fox, only one is a rooster & there are 3 hens from our RIR rooster & one of the green legged partridge hens. These GLP hens lay a smaller egg, almost almond in colour - nice looking eggs & tasty too... so we now have 3 mini-chick hens just started to lay a light buff brown smaller sized egg!

Happy Days

Oh, & I just candled the 40 eggs in our new incubator & only 2 weren't viable.... I think!

[gunners71uk]

today we had two ! as far as i can see i have had a good look round but there definitely more clucky lol

[becks77]

[gunners71uk]

another 2 eggs today dunno why the other 2 aint laid yet im sure there get there

[Gert]

Congrats gunners, enjoy the eggs.

Rosey, For a bit of fun, can you take guesses on the date of the first egg.

I'm going for April 11th