Our First Egg!!!

[TexasGirl97]

Yall, I'm so so so excited!! One of our lavendar orpingtons laid an egg this morning! (my son found it, it was hiding) It's our first ever egg and I couldn't be more happy. I can't wait for the weeks to come and hopefully will see more eggs in the near future it's so funny though because i told my husband we needed to put the nesting boxes up this week because they are 17 weeks old tomorrow and can start laying eggs anytime now and i wanted us to be prepared before that happened. We just finished setting up the nesting boxes today lol

 

[WIchickMama]

so awesome, congrats on the first egg!

 

[TexasGirl97]

so awesome, congrats on the first egg!

Thank you

 

[Earthdale]

 

[TexasGirl97]

Sooo I stand corrected! It's actually one of our olive eggers that is laying eggs... I saw her lay one just now... but I'm kinda sad because, well, she's an olive egger and not laying olive colored eggs. I hope at least 1 of the 6 olive eggers we have lays an olive egg or I will be sad

 

[Blue Raptor]

Yall, I'm so so so excited!! One of our lavendar orpingtons laid an egg this morning! (my son found it, it was hiding) It's our first ever egg and I couldn't be more happy. I can't wait for the weeks to come and hopefully will see more eggs in the near future it's so funny though because i told my husband we needed to put the nesting boxes up this week because they are 17 weeks old tomorrow and can start laying eggs anytime now and i wanted us to be prepared before that happened. We just finished setting up the nesting boxes today lol View attachment 3160541

First egg! Woo! It’s going to be so exciting eating it!

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Congratulations!

 

[Duckduckchicken32]

Yay! Congrats on your first egg! You can put a golf ball in each of the nest boxes to help them know where to lay.

 

[TexasGirl97]

Yay! Congrats on your first egg! You can put a golf ball in each of the nest boxes to help them know where to lay.

I've had a golf ball in the nesting boxes for almost a week and they still prefer to lay their eggs under them... I'm probably going to put the boxes on the ground and see if that helps!