First Egg

Chickens, Eggs, Reflections

Our young hens (the chicks that arrived back in March) have started laying. They turned 20 weeks old on Monday. On Tuesday my sister called and told me she had found 3 small eggs in her coop that day. Three of the 6 hens we gave her had started laying! Since we hadn’t seen any small eggs, which is evidence that a young hen is laying, I started giving our girls pep talks. “What are you all doing hanging out here? You should be in the coop giving me an egg and earning your keep.” Today my husband found our first small egg. In the photo below the egg in the center is from a young hen. It’s about 1/2 the size of the other eggs.

It’s hard to say how many of these small eggs a hen will lay before their eggs become normal size, but as more of the girls begin laying I’m sure we will see more eggs like this.

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21 thoughts on “First Egg”

    1. It always makes me happy when someone learns something new from my blog. It does vary – some hens start laying even smaller (marble sized) eggs and some start out laying regular size eggs. But we do know that when we see those small eggs a new hen is laying. Thanks for stopping by Nancy.

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      1. LOL. I would do that, too, if I had chickens. I’ve been known to praise my roses if they’re being especially pretty. Heck, I say “please” and “thank you” to Alexa. I know “she” is a machine, but I don’t want to get out of the habit of being polite and accidentally talk to a person as if (s)he’s a machine.

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