[timtheenchanteruk]

Sooo exited this morning, just had to share, went down to let my ladies out, and there were 2 (albeit very small) speckled eggs.

Im happy, seems my worrying that I was doing it right is all for nothing, and they happy, infact ginger (gold star) will come and sit next to me or my kids in the garden for a stroke, not got quite that far with the other 2 yet.

[terri]

congratulations    its eggciting isnt it

[PaulineM]

It's so exciting when you get your first eggs, well done girls and you too 

[JaK]

Congratulations, now how do you plan to cook them? 

[VickyW]

Congratulations!!! "Happy Chicken Dance"

[timtheenchanteruk]

Congratulations, now how do you plan to cook them? 

not decided yet, just keep looking at them...

possibly poached (the proper way in a pan of water, not one of those egg poaching things)

[Oliveview]

Lovely, best was to est an egg poached!  Congratulations and may they be the first of many eggs
Pamela

[brick22]

Congratulaions ......we are still looking out for our first egg and we literally cannot wait. I think I will be calling my mum and telling her she has become a granny!!!!
Hope its the first of many.

[bantam novice]

boiled with toast soldiers

[terri]

my oh had our first egg fried and in a butty before it had a chance to cool down

[Caramelle]

Hahaha that's lovely!!!! Congrats!! :-)

[kimmcb]

Congratulations! I posted a picture of my first dozen or so eggs on facebook, and I was only getting one a day at the time! I don't think my non chicken - owning friends really understood the excitement, but I certainly do! BYW, they are Amazing poached. Think I'll have that for lunch too, with some wholemeal toast.

[SMS6]

Hi

I'm new here and new to chicken keeping.   We brought our 3 girls home on Saturday 4th June at about 10.00.  One light sussex, one marran and one hybrid.   We had fun and games when the sussex decided to do a runner as soon as we let her out but once caught and all secured they settled very quickly.

I went down to the hen house Saturday afternoon at about 3.30 in order to wind my partner up by declaring an egg but the joke (or should that be yolk) was on me because there was indeed an egg in the nest box,  I thought he'd put it there for a laugh but it was a white one and I knew the last of our few shop bought were all brown.  We think Bab's the Sussex layed it.

On Sunday we got 2 more, brown ones this time, one large and one quite small so we think that was one from each of the other two - they shop had told us the hybrid (Ginger)  was only just laying so her eggs were small.

Yesterday we had another lovely white one - I can't wait to get home today and see if there's a pattern developing.

[Raven81]

I'm so jealous! Have had mine two weeks and no eggs yet - tho for several reasons I now suspect they are slightly younger than we told when we got them!

[timtheenchanteruk]

Im loving it, just collecting egg based recepies, Ive just got the one laying so far (maybe itll spurr the other 2 one) but so far a regular 2 eggs a day, they started out quite small, but todays 2 have been a "normal" size.

Ive saved yesterdays, so its scrambled for tea today!!