Post your FIRST EGG pics!

[Rothgardens]

Our First Eggs. Chickens are now 5 months old and starting to produce!

 

[minamisfit]

When my chickens start laying, I stalk them too lol I'm impatient

 

[Sandywitch]

LOL! We're doing it too! Hubby even has a remote camera set up in the coop!

 

[grassoviso]

We started our first flock on April 4th 2014. It is now July 28th and we finally got our first egg. She is a bantam OEG so its really small. This made my day!

 

[vehve]

We started our first flock on April 4th 2014. It is now July 28th and we finally got our first egg. She is a bantam OEG so its really small. This made my day!

Aww, that's cute. Did you weigh it?

 

[grassoviso]

Oh shoot. I didnt even think about that! Instead I ate it this morning. But I will for sure weigh the next one. I think my food scale will measure grams, will have to check. Thanks

 

[vehve]

Oh shoot. I didnt even think about that! Instead I ate it this morning. But I will for sure weigh the next one. I think my food scale will measure grams, will have to check. Thanks

The best part is going crazy statistician on your flock.

Egg production
Date Hen Veera Viiru Virpi Töyhtis Wilma Emma Total/x Total/g
DOB 18.01.14 18.01.14 18.01.14 18.03.14 18.03.14 10.04.14 51 1712
25.06.14 30 1 30
26.06.14 28 1 28
27.06.14 27 1 27
28.06.14 0
29.06.14 31 1 31
30.06.14 30 1 30
01.07.14 31 1 31
02.07.14 0
03.07.14 32 1 32
04.07.14 32 1 32
05.07.14 33 1 33
06.07.14 31 1 31
07.07.14 31 1 31
08.07.14 0
09.07.14 30 33 2 63
10.07.14 33 1 33
11.07.14 32 32 2 64
12.07.14 33 33 2 66
13.07.14 31 1 31
14.07.14 32 34 2 66
15.07.14 34 1 34
16.07.14 31 1 31
17.07.14 32 36 2 68
18.07.14 32 1 32
19.07.14 34 30 2 64
20.07.14 36 31 2 67
21.07.14 33 1 33
22.07.14 34 35 2 69
23.07.14 34 35 2 69
24.07.14 35 34 2 69
25.07.14 33 34 36 3 103
26.07.14 47 1 47
27.07.14 32 35 38 48 4 153
28.07.14 34 37 37 3 108
29.07.14 37 35 34 3 106

 

[charliethezero]

I'm so excited, finally one of my 25week old wheaten marans just layed an egg.

She just forgot to add a shell. Can't wait to see the color.

 

[evemfoster]

The best part is going crazy statistician on your flock.

Yes it is, I thought i was just extra super nuts. Sure glad someone is doing even a little bit of the statistician stuff. For a while designed huge complicated spreadsheets for a living and the spreadsheet just seemed to acquire a life of it's own.

I would paste my spreadsheet in to be admired/laughed at, except it is over a couple pages wide - and growing. I started out just keeping track of how much the chickens ate each week. So i would have an idea when to pick up a new bag of feed. I only go to town a couple times a month its quiet a long drive so i didn't want to run out and have to make an extra trip just for a bag of feed. I used a App called Cluck-ulator to get daily feed weights ate by the birds at each week of age. Then i added calculations to figure out how many pounds should remain in a bag. And what week the feed should run out. Sort of a early warning system.

When i got down to the end of my first bag and found that i had 16 pounds more feed than i had calculated. The chickens are free ranging and i feed FF. So that was understandable but didn't work on my spreadsheet so i put in a column to add back in the extra uneaten feed. And while i was at it i put in some calculations for keeping track of the expenses. Just pop in the weight of the feed and the price and the spreadsheet calculates out how long it will last and show how much i have spent to date.

Then i started wondering how to keep track of the eggs and how to work them into the calculations as a profit. Yes i am going to eat them but its the principle of the thing. Mind you my chickens won't even start laying for at least another month. But i got to wondering so much i made an extra trip into town and bought a dozen eggs as an excuse to get the price of the eggs off the shelf sticker. Then I sat down and figured out how much i paid per ounce (.073 cents). Then added columns for all the egg sizes and figured out how much each size should weigh. I set it up so i only have to enter the egg totals weekly to get a set of weekly figures. No i didn't want to even keep track of what was happening day by day. Worked too long in a hatchery to want to know that.

But i did design another spreadsheet to act as a check-sheet during the week. Put it into a plastic sheet cover and plan to tally the sizes of the eggs with a dry erase pen. I will transfer the totals at the end of each week to the big spreadsheet. That is close enough for me on the eggs.

By the time i was done the spreadsheet gives me a real time calculation on feed poundage and costs. And should in the future give me egg totals and savings. And a virtual profit/loss running total. No I didn't even try to predict future egg production. Prediction doesn't work with eggs or birthing babies no matter how i want it to.

The spreadsheet shows i will break even in a year or two. Depending on if hens stop laying during the winter or not. And if they lay as many eggs per week as the web sites say they will.

Sure glad i am in this for the farm fresh eggs.

Oh, shoot i didn't put in a column for oyster shell.


Edited because i cant spell.

 

[blankchicken]

My 21 week brown leghorn laid her first egg today! Let's see if any of the other ladies start soon too!