SalsaChick
In the Brooder
- Jul 26, 2021
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Left my husband and our five year old son to keep an eye on my ladies while I visited family out of town.
I found a cream colored egg, small-ish but not tiny, in the run today.
All of my gals are a 7/5 hatch date (so, 14 weeks?).
I can't believe any of them are laying already?!? When I had hens before I had to wait 22 weeks for my first egg.
We live in California, weather still lovely and they get lots of sun.
It's an enclosed run with 1/2" hardware cloth completely covering it, so I can't imagine that it's from a wild bird.
No one is submission squatting, I didn't hear an eggsong, and I'm dying of curiosity to know who laid it.
Are any of these breeds early layers?
??? Mille fleur d/Uccle bantam
??? Bantam easter eggers (I have two)
??? Buff silkie
??? Silver spangled hamburg
??? Red star
??? Swedish flower
Favaucana-- nope, not green
Black copper marans-- nope, not a brown egg
Cream legbar-- nope, color isn't right and she's nowhere ready to lay (comb/wattle)
I found a cream colored egg, small-ish but not tiny, in the run today.
All of my gals are a 7/5 hatch date (so, 14 weeks?).
I can't believe any of them are laying already?!? When I had hens before I had to wait 22 weeks for my first egg.
We live in California, weather still lovely and they get lots of sun.
It's an enclosed run with 1/2" hardware cloth completely covering it, so I can't imagine that it's from a wild bird.
No one is submission squatting, I didn't hear an eggsong, and I'm dying of curiosity to know who laid it.

Are any of these breeds early layers?
??? Mille fleur d/Uccle bantam
??? Bantam easter eggers (I have two)
??? Buff silkie
??? Silver spangled hamburg
??? Red star
??? Swedish flower
Favaucana-- nope, not green
Black copper marans-- nope, not a brown egg
Cream legbar-- nope, color isn't right and she's nowhere ready to lay (comb/wattle)