We seem to have been waiting forever for this event. We've had the chickens about 4 months now. These first eggs are smaller than regular size eggs, but I am told as the chickens get older, their eggs will get bigger too.
A few days after Tom built the next boxes, we noticed the wood shavings we use to line the boxes were being disturbed. We never saw a chicken in them, but we would find depressions scooped out in the middle of each box. So, we suspected they were "exploring" the boxes when we were not watching.
Friday, I heard one of them squawking up a storm and I dashed out to the chicken coop to see if by chance one of them had laid an egg. Nothing. Then, Sunday afternoon, Tom came in saying he had heard one of them making a lot of noise, too. We joked about how we had always heard that chickens made a lot of noise, clucking, squawking, etc. whenever they laid an egg, but figured that was probably just an "old wive's tale".
However, Tom's curiosity got the best of him, went out to check and returned with this little jewel. So, today when he when he heard a commotion coming from the chicken coop, he was hopeful that maybe we'd be lucky enough to find another egg. But, instead of 1 egg, he found 2!
We both like eggs, but at this rate we may be inundated once the flock gets this egg-laying thing figured out and goes into high gear! I suspect our dogs may get their dry dog food supplemented with some scrambled eggs occasionally.
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