Our little chickens laid their first egg today. In fact, they laid their first THREE eggs today! I found the first one this morning, on top of their coop. It was cracked and a little frozen, so it must have been laid overnight since they like to roost on the roof of their coop most nights.
We got lucky with the second egg of the day. Spencer was home for lunch and we both heard one of the hens outside making some major racket. Sure enough, when we peeked out she was sitting in a box that I put on top of their coop this morning after finding the first egg. She hopped out of the box after a minute and we immediately went out to check for an egg. BINGO!
We were not expecting eggs yet because most people say chickens need at least 12 hours of light each day in order to lay. We have installed a light in the coop to increase their daylight hours, but haven't gotten around to installing the timer and turning it on yet. I guess these little ladies were ready anyway!
After finding the first good egg in the box, Spencer went back to work and I ran a few errands. When I got back home I went out to put fresh pine shavings in the coop and found another egg! This one was mixed up in the pine shavings in their coop, next to the box we put in there for them to lay in. So three eggs in one day. Only one of them ended up in a laying box, but overall I'm pretty satisfied! We'll have to figure out how to get them to lay all their eggs in the laying boxes from now on.
