Eggs!

It finally happened - our chickens laid their first egg. I think it was one of the barred rocks. The old girls are somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 or 19 weeks - I no longer have their ages marked on the calendar because I thought they'd be laying before now! Either way, it's very eggciting!

The first egg came up 2 days ago and my husband found it in the coop. It wasn't in the nesting box, but it WAS inside, so bonus! The next day there was nothing and today I found an egg the second time I went out to check, about 2 hours after we had let them out for the day. Sneaky, sneaky! It was in the same spot that the first one was laid, in the coop, but not in a nesting box.

The eggs are smaller than normal "large" eggs from the grocery store - roughly 2/3 the size, a medium brown color with a thicker shell. The yolks are a deep orange color and the texture is much creamier than a store-bought egg. We're saving up the rest of the eggs we get this week for our weekend breakfast. :-)