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hooray fgirst egg lovely size

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

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)

Rosendula wrote: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

Yippee I hope you really enjoy it Gunners!

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!

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

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

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