Last Saturday 7/20/13 we got our very first egg from the chickens! We had the chickens for 3 weeks and Gary was getting worried because they were almost 24 weeks old and he had heard that the chickens can start to lay at 18 weeks. He tried everything, he put golf balls in the nesters, he tried different types of bedding to see what would make them happy, he bought various types of food and special treats that he read would help get the process going and finally we get an egg. On that day Gary & Tayler noticed that Phoenix (one of the Rhode Island Reds) seemed to be protective of the nester and was running all the other chickens off every time they got close. We decided to hang out by the coop to watch what was going on because we thought it was quite funny. I captured this video of Phoenix. She sounds like she's making an announcement. We were not sure if this was her egg song or her way of telling everyone to keep away!
This went on for about an hour and then she settled in a nester and squatted. Gary and Tayler watched her as she squatted up and down and then an egg came out! It was a big one too, I can understand why she made so much noise!
We then took the first egg and compared it to eggs we had in our fridge from Dollar General.
Our fresh egg, the brown egg, ended up having 2 yolks inside which explains why it was so big. To date this first egg has been the biggest so far. You can see that the yolk has an orange color as opposed to the store bought egg with a yellow color. Gary immediately scrambled both of the eggs up separately and we did a taste test. The fresh egg definitely had a better flavor to it.
YUM!
Now 8 days later we have collected 14 eggs! We now have 3 hens that are laying although we are not sure which ones. One of the hens laid a very ob-longed shaped egg, so we can only assume that this was her first one!
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