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Daisy's Officially Now A Hen!

11/4/2013

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A few days ago I noticed that she was making  a little nest.  And for a few hours this morning, Miss Daisy was raising quite a ruckus. My husband and I were confident that today was her day.  As morning turned to noon, Daisy seemed to be nervously darting in and out of the coop, and so I was starting to get a little worried, and then I started to think that she might be egg bound.  I have no idea how an egg bound chicken acts, but she was definitely acting a lot more agitated then the other girls had acted when they laid their first egg.

Grouped together in this picture is Miss blossom's lighter egg at the top, with Miss Daisy's first egg, and as you can see, Daisy's egg has a dark reddish streak on it.  If you will also notice, Miss Daisy's first egg is actually quite large compared to the product of Miss Blossom's two week laying prowess.  As I understand it, a chicken starts laying small eggs at first, and then get larger as they continue laying.

I was relieved that she finally laid her first egg just after noon, and then as I held the fruit of her labor in my hand and looked at that reddish streak on the shell, I wondered if it was blood.  When I had taken the eggs inside, I went back to the chicken run and inspected Daisy's vent, I was concerned that she might have a prolapse.  Thankfully she did not have a prolapse and I did not see any blood coming from her vent - whew!  I am hoping that tomorrow, Miss Daisy will lay her egg with no further discomfort, and settle into an uneventful egg laying career.  And now I'm expecting an egg from Miss Buttercup any day now.  Hopefully she won't have such a hard time laying her first egg.

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Please share what your chicken's first laying egg-perience was like....

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