We found our first chicken eggs this morning! Yea! I'm so excited. And its exactly 4 months from the day we brought them home from the feed store, which was May 7. One was cracked out in the wood pile so we're not sure when that one was laid but the other two were right in the nesting boxes, perfectly clean in a bed of wood shavings. These eggs are smaller than normal, which is typical for adolescent birds when they first start to lay. They should get bigger over the next several days and weeks. The second and third pictures show them in comparison to a typical large store egg. Notice how bright orange the yolk is of our egg as compared to the store egg which is from higher levels of vitamin A from eating green grass and bugs. Also notice how firm the white is which means it is very fresh. Woohoo! We should start getting 6-7 eggs a day since we have 7 hens and one rooster (at least as far as we can tell thus far).
5 comments:
Way to go chicks!!!!
that is just so COOL!
I found out I can legally have chickens here--but no roosters!
Now that i'm working full time I would have to find a caretaker for them--'cause Seymour HATES chickens!
They don't really need a caretaker, Mom. I spend 5 minutes in the morning changing the water,letting them out, and getting the eggs and 2 minutes at night shutting the door to the coop. If you use the deep litter method you only need to clean out the coop once every year or two. Its VERY easy and fun! And with only a few chickens and a decent sized coop it doesn't smell at all. (and if you add garlic powder to their feed it actually smells kind of good)
Nice. I'd be curious to see how your eggs and their color compare to store bought eggs that are from cage free, vegetarian fed hens and all that jazz - like the nice, expensive eggs.
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