Countdown To Eggs! For June hatches 😊

[UThobbyfarmer]

The bird I see using the nest box the most is my rooster.

No eggs yet. Still hopeful for the end of October. The oldest ones are 18/19 weeks old. The younger pullets are 15 weeks tomorrow.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

One of my Orps is reddening up, but the other one doesn't even look close, smdh, they are 22 weeks now

 

[WallyG74]

One of my Orps is reddening up, but the other one doesn't even look close, smdh, they are 22 weeks now

I have a feeling they gonna make you wait until January. These days are getting shorter and shorter.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I have a feeling they gonna make you wait until January. These days are getting shorter and shorter.

That’s my biggest worry. If I don’t get eggs soon I’ll be waiting till spring.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I have a feeling they gonna make you wait until January. These days are getting shorter and shorter.

It's possible, lol...I'm not holding my breath, the breeder I got them from said they generally don't start laying until 26ish weeks, and the cockerels don't even start crowing until around 26ish weeks, so I'll just be twiddling my thumbs waiting

 

[Linnre]

I have 3 who hatched mid May. I’ll be waiting as well!
Ameraucana 5/17
Black Australorp 5/18
Cream Legbar 5/18

I got my first egg from my Ameraucana who was 5 months yesterday. She’s been showing signs - squatting and checking out the nest. So exciting! It’s the little greenish grayish blue one! I only have two other older hens laying so these are my eggs from today! Still waiting on my Cream Legbar and Black Australorp who are both 5 months today! I can’t stop looking at these pictures!

 

[Iluveggers]

I got my first egg from my Ameraucana who was 5 months yesterday. She’s been showing signs - squatting and checking out the nest. So exciting! It’s the little greenish grayish blue one! I only have two other older hens laying so these are my eggs from today! Still waiting on my Cream Legbar and Black Australorp who are both 5 months today! I can’t stop looking at these pictures!View attachment 3296689View attachment 3296688

Aww it’s a beautiful egg!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I got my first egg from my Ameraucana who was 5 months yesterday. She’s been showing signs - squatting and checking out the nest. So exciting! It’s the little greenish grayish blue one! I only have two other older hens laying so these are my eggs from today! Still waiting on my Cream Legbar and Black Australorp who are both 5 months today! I can’t stop looking at these pictures!View attachment 3296689View attachment 3296688

I'm going to go home and show my slackers and say this is what you need to be doing, lol...very pretty colored eggs!

 

[Linnre]

I'm going to go home and show my slackers and say this is what you need to be doing, lol...very pretty colored eggs!

Thank you! It was an exciting day!

 

[LovePBandJ]

I have a flock of 10, all hatched in June this year 6/3, 6/10 and 6/21).

Since the first just turned 12 weeks, I am getting excited watching them mature and get their new feathers, while they work out the pecking order.

I am hoping to get an egg by November (worry that light might play a part), but I think October is a possibility! None of mine are production breeds, so I don’t think anyone will be super early.

Feel free to join this thread if you also have June babies, and let’s wait together to see when each of our ladies lays their first egg! Post a pic of the egg and who laid it! (General location would be awesome too, to see if it had any impact). Once the first lays, I’m sure the posts will come flying in!

march 26 hatch of silkies. I GOT MY FIRST EGG TODAY!! Seven months (almost). Of the three, only one laid, but I expect that to change, soon.