Our First Eggs

It has been five and a half months since the baby chicks first arrived at our house and we finally got eggs. Coincidentally, two of the girls started laying a few days after we put plastic Easter eggs in the nesting areas so they would know where to lay.

At first we found a brown egg, but did not know from who. While Misses Clucksworth and Fifi are Barred Plymouths, thus breeds which lay brown eggs, Whiskers is an Easter Egger which could possibly lay an egg of multiple colors, one of the possibilities being brown.

Within a few days of the first eggs we found a green egg in the coop and knew that Whiskers had begun laying too. The first few eggs were either cracked or had soft shells (softies) so we didn’t eat the first five, but we saved up a few and Chad (roommate) was daring enough to cook them up and be our taste tester. The eggs were good, but you don’t have to take my word for it.