Got them! Got them!

[TPeers]

Update!

Got our first egg yesterday! It was quite small, which I understand is normal from the books I have read. I think Hazel is planning to have it for her breakfast this morning - if she ever gets up!

The only thing is - it was layed in the run, not the coop, is this normal? I thought hens liked to go somewhere dark and quiet to lay, not out in the middle of the run!

Anyway - home produced fresh eggs - Yummmy!

[serenity]

Hi there, I know how exciting it is to get your first egg, I think I was almost hyperventilating

My rir was the only one of my chucks laying at first. She insisted on laying in the coop but on the floor even though I had built some fine external nest boxes with lovely straw to nest in. The girls loved to play in them but still the eggs were layed on the floor. I tried everything, kept picking up the eggs and putting in the nests, tried fake eggs and I put a ball in the place where she usually layed but to no avail. Then I bought 3 new chucks, the light sussex started laying straight in the nests and the rir just started to follow her lead.

[Nicos]

Got our first egg yesterday! It was quite small, which I understand is normal from the books I have read. I think Hazel is planning to have it for her breakfast this morning - if she ever gets up!
Anyway - home produced fresh eggs - Yummmy!

Well- is she up yet?????
Breakfast in bed at this rate!!!!!

[TPeers]

In the kitchen as I type, watching 'her' egg boil!

[TPeers]

She just let me taste it - yummy! Very rich and almost buttery, much better than the shop bought jobs!

Must be the freshness!

[Nicos]

Fantastic!!!!

[serenity]

try them poached, I could never make a decent poached egg till I got my own girls. Now I could put delia to shame

the fresh eggs hold together so much better than shop bought which are probably a couple of weeks old at least.

[TPeers]

I will, once I'm allowed one!

[CountryFayre]

Well I would say the fight for the fresh eggs will soon wear off .....but sadly it won't!!! If we are ever short of eggs, my 3 kiddies start a riot between them!!

[TPeers]

I can well believe it! We have friends and family cueing up 'to see what all the fuss is about'.

Well once both birds are laying (and if I get away with sneaking in a couple of extras... ) their should be enough eggs to go round.

[yoanbob]

we're getting about 40 eggs a week at the mo and allways find them homes, but yes it is still great to have your own eggs in the morning, trouble is i cant remember how shop eggs are any more, maybe i'm spoilt

[CountryFayre]

plain, tasteless and sick looking!!!!

[yoanbob]

oh and i do remember thin shells