I AM EGGSTREMELY EGGCITED GUYS!
TODAY!!
Today is a monumental day for Farmstead Smith! We've gotten OUR FIRST EGG! It's like, a legit egg too! Not even a bitty fart egg! Ha. It's about the size of a medium egg you'd buy at the grocery store!
Finally these ladies are picking up their slack! Showing that some are done being freeloaders! I think this might mean we're real farmers now! Ha.
I am really hoping that it wasn't one of my Easter Eggers cause I was really really hoping that they would lay their supposed blue or green eggs, sometimes you just don't get that though, Easter Eggers are a toss up in that arena.
Of course, I had to call and text everyone I knew! I talked my grandparents and my grandma asked me "Well, are you gonna eat it, or just look at it?"
I just have one egg, Grandma! I'm gonna stare at it for a bit. Obviously. hahahaha.
I didn't find an egg then.
An hour or two later, I went out to go fill their water, and TA-FREAKING-DA! There's an egg!! An egg that isn't a fake egg! The fakes are the ones with smiley faces on... haha. I added that personal touch.
As far as I know, this is the first egg!! Like I said, they have been showing signs of lay for a couple of weeks, but after research I found that sometimes they're just preemptive... Ha. They like to get me excited and disappoint me all in the same minute. Haha. I guess it's practice.
I was betting that they would lay eggs under the coop. They spend a lot of time down there because it's pretty warm here. It would have been my luck that they lay anywhere except the nesting box. I am thankful I was wrong!
Waiting for them to start laying eggs is probably the most difficult part of raising chickens!
I, of course, had to tell my own mom (I called her momma chicken well before chickens were even in my future! hahaha) about the egg, she was happy to greet her first great grand baby egg. Bahahah
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- Crossbeak The Rooster
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History is Made! Eggs preserved in the blockchain and memories savored in minds. NOTHING compares to your own fresh, free range eggs. I am so happy for you guys and a bit jealous! If you ever had chickens at one point, going to town to PAY for low quality sad eggs is almost sinful. Hope you guys continue and showcase how easy, rewarding and worthwhile raising your own chickens can actually be. You guys rock! and congratulations on your edible arrivals! Steemit should adapt to the eco/ homesteading /permaculture community and have little awards for that too !!! (first egg) hehe
Oh my goodness! What a wonderful comment you've left me! Thank you!
I am really excited to eat it. But I will save up at least 4 so my husband and I can eat them together! I am pretty eggcited to say the least! I had been off and on getting other people's farm eggs, but I just KNOW mine are gonna be better! We should be able to have breakfast by... Saturday, Sunday at the latest if this one doesn't start slacking again!
Hey! I think that would be so fun!! Hahah We should make them!
Congratulations! it is a milestone, soon you have more than you will know what to with. We can never produce enough, more egg orders than eggs, increasing the egg laying flock to 60 hens. Best of luck to you and your chicken endeavors!
Thanks! I am thankful they've started. I can't wait to have an overabundance so I can give away and start selling!! Eeeeeeeeeeep. Too eggcited. Wore myself out. Hahaha.
SO WONDERFUL! We just had this moment two weeks ago, and holding that egg (considering all that went into getting to the point where we could have land enough to have chickens to have eggs) was like holding the most precious, edible jewel. HIGH FIVE.
The most expensive... Hahahahaha Damn girls are SPOILED. Hahaha. Speaking of spoiled, I better go turn on their sprinkler..... :/ Hahahah
Yours get a sprinkler? That's awesome. We've only had ours for 3 weeks, so it's still a getting-to-know you game. Have you ever had a problem with your Wyandottes escaping/generally being jerks? We've got two of them, and they are...full of personality, to the chagrin of the smallest hen who gets the brunt of it.
Hahah well, go check out my previous post Crossbeak the Rooster. He is kind of a jerk. But I don't like, wanna hold my chickens or anything. I am okay with him being stand-off-ish. He has been kicked a couple times due to trying to attack the dogs for no reason. I have heard that Wyandottes are pretty asshole-y in general. Especially the hatchery birds. The female isn't so bad, because she is pretty shy, from what I can tell. I haven't even really touched her.
Yeah, they get a sprinkler, it's awful hot here, 95f here at the moment! I think those idiots might die without it... They go stand in the coop...
I don't have a problem with escapees because mine free range anyway. I did fence off my back yard and sometimes a chicken comes into it. But usually it's my Lady chicken (I have yet to share her, as her own post, soon! - She's the only one I really like - she follows me around), she is usually looking for me and I will find her on the back deck.
I don't allow my chickens to be aggressive toward each other or allow the roosters to mate in my presence. Obviously, nothing I can do if I am not out there... But, it tends to help them see me as the head honcho. Haha.
I just put a mini hot tub in for my girls. They can splash around and drink it! Gonna hit the high 30's this week. Gotta take care of our chickees.
Celsius right? I forgot where you're located! Haha. We've got 95f today, they need that cold water! Haha
95 is nasty! Yes, we are supposed to get +40C in the okanagan this weekend.
Ughhhh that's so hot. Hahaha.
This is great news. You broke you duck! English expression for finally getting a result. I love the way the chicken has painted the cute little smiley faces on the egg. That is one talented chicken.
I'm eggstremely happy for you and your new found enterprise. Keep us informed of future eggserts.
It is bad form to say that I have resteemed and upvoted this post. What's the etiquette?
Teeheehee We're eggstraordinary!
At first I was like, "I didn't mention my ducks did I?? I hope I didn't break one... oh no!" hahaha Glad you explained the meaning.
Yes, talented little buggers. ;) Those are the fake eggs. The real and the fake really don't feel so different so I had to make something on them that told me those were the fakies!
I see a lot of people do it, say that they upped, followed, and resteemed and all that. I don't generally tell people whether or not I upped or resteemed. They can figure that out for themselves, in my opinion, but it doesn't hurt to tell them either!
I guess once I get my head around all these newish terms I'll figure it out. I've only been here 8 days lol and I'm having a blast. Got to check out your whole back catalogue to catch up on the story so far.
Love the fake eggs, very clever.
Wayyyy to Go!!! It looks pretty big for an easter egger egg...wow that was hard to say LOL. We have a bunch of easter egger hens, and the ones that lay the pale pink/taupe colour, are smaller than that egg. I can't wait to see your first easter egg! Praying you get a blue or a green those are the bestest, and yes, you will NOT want to crack it either, more like frame it.
Also LOL to calling them turds! That CRACKED me up.
HAHaha hens was doing my research, Easter Eggers are supposed to lay L/XL eggs. But these are small eggies! About size medium that you'd buy from the grocery store. They're just starting laying, but I'd be happy with any size, really! Hard to say with EEs tho, since they're mutts. Haha I wonder when mine will lay. I know that can be anywhere from now to a year old! Stupid mutts. Hahaha
Are you sure your EEs aren't bantams?!
Hahah I'm thinking this is an australorp egg, to be honest!
I can't wait for the colored eggs! C'mon ladies!!
Hmm...maybe the egg just looked big in your hand then. Yes, I'm sure they are easter eggers, one lays green, two lay pink, and one lays a pink-taupe colour <3 They are small birds though that could be why I find their eggs to be small.
Fingers crossed for you to get coloured eggies!
Here are some of their eggs with our Leghorn's eggs.
I totally missed this pic the other day! What a beautiful sight! Hehe can't wait!
I can't wait for you to start having fresh, colourful eggs every day either. Just exciting as hell. We have a bunch of 3 month old's and I know the feeling, some of our older hens have stopped laying, so it will be nice to have some fresh girls laying. We still don't know who are roosters and who are hens yet, it's all a waiting game!
Oooh I mean, there's such thing as Bantam Chickens! Just a mini version of whatever "breed"! You could have bantam easter eggers! <3
Oooh awesome, I just learned something new! Thanks for teaching me some lingo, yes, they may very well be bantams :) Cool, yeah, my neighbour has an easter egger hen, and she's pretty big, all makes sense now :)
Hahah yeah!! You should share them in a post, if you haven't already! Would love to see them! <3
Will do! 2 have just hatched eggs, and the other 2 are still brooding on theirs. It's apparently a great breed to go broody! 4/4 have all been Mothers, 1/4 has been a Mom 3 times since we had her, and another is on her second time! Broody-Machines!
Hehehehe I think it's the Bantam in them! Silkies are broody freaks also! And they're a bantam breed. How exciting! Do you sell chicks?
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Funny seeing this because I was just out with my chickens earlier thinking that the day is coming soon when I will be this excited for my first egg! Fun post! Upvoted and resteemed :D
Awe thanks raincountry! It is really exciting! Hahah Way more exciting than I thought it was going to be. Now I am out there at like, 11am (which is around the time they're laying, weirdos), just waiting like a creeper!! Hahaah
dang so rad! In the city I live, Long Beach, you are allowed up to 4 chickens so people have been building coops in their backyard. Been fun to watch!
Are you going to get some chickens too?? You should! They're oddly satisfying!!
Congratulations! The monster eggs are our double yoke, we have had one triple yoke. When the hens are young they will sometimes wrap two yokes and the egg is huge. Then there are the tiny pullet egg that sometimes don't have a yoke. I get 4 dozen eggs per day... I have a coop for them with nest boxes and they started laying in them right away, but they are in a large pen so they don't have many places outside to lay.
Yeah! Sometimes they work on overdrive, huh?! Haha.
4 dozen, WOW! That's amazing. I have 21 chickens, 2 are roos for sure... I am questioning a third. Haha. But, I hope to at least get enough to give away and sell!! I might have to get more chickens! :) Hahah
Awesome. Up-Voted and Followed.
Hey thanks!! <3