**our First Eggs!!!**

[Barreds N' Tards Ranch]

All,

Today my eight year old daughter found our first eggs!!! Very excited!!! I think they were laid by the Silkies. They are small and the lightest of brown color with some white
speckles. There were four of them. We live in Orange County California and are totally stoked Dude!!! I do have a Question though...Is it possible that if we found four eggs, and assuming that the two Silkies will lay one a day each, that they started yesterday and will they be alright to eat? I am trying to hold myself back from goin' total Rocky Balboa here and suckin' them down. But I don't want to go out like Old Yeller either...My wife would be just the one to have to put me down....kidding.

If anyone could answer the numerics question and how long an egg can sit in a nesting box and be alright to eat...that would be great.

On a side note...the other chickens out of the five that we have are...A Brama, A Cochin, and a Barred Rock.

Signed,

A Man and his Chickens

 

[trunkman]

First of all, Congrats on your first eggs

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! As far as if the eggs are good to eat, you can keep eggs on the counter for several weeks and they will still be good to eat so if one of you hens layed the eggs in the past few days they will be good.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats on the eggs! You probably have more than 1 laying, but I would not assume the silkies will lay one each day. Eggs can naturally last quite a while. (couple weeks on the counter, couple months in the fridge if unwashed) The eggs will be fine, enjoy.

 

[BarredBuff]

Congratulations and Welcome!

 

[Barreds N' Tards Ranch]

Awesome!! Thanks for the info. Can you tell me if we can start eating them right out of the shoot so to speak or should we give them a few practice eggs before we eat them? I was thinking we might give them the shells for these first few and then start eating them.

 

[NonnasBabies]

Nothing more satisfying than eating the first egg layed!!

 

[ranchhand]

Congratulations and

May I ask what your user name means?

 

[Toril]

Congrats on your first eggs, it's so much fun!

I have hear that giving the shells to the chickens can encourage them to eat the eggs... I would grind the shells very finely and mix it in their feed, if necessary. But if the shells are hard enough, there's no reason to give them shells.

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Only if when you give them the shells it looks like an egg. I dry mine in the oven, cover the pan with a paper towel and crush them up. They love them!!

 

[BigIslandChicks]

i wash all our eggs shells out and then crush them up and mix in with the kitchen scraps for the day - they will scratch mostly everything (unless its peas or pasta!) out of the way to get the egg shells!! eat the eggs and give them the shells back!

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