Just as miraculous as the development of the feathers on a chicken is the development of an egg! The pullets are heading into their egg development stage. We have our first egg from the new batch. Smaller and with thinner shells, the new eggs taste just as egg-cellent as our others. Here's a photo of the new egg compared to the eggs we received from our first chickens. The one in the middle is not as big around nor as heavy as the two on either side. Pre-moult, one of our hens laid "short squatty" almost white eggs while the other hens lay longer, skinnier eggs that are a pale beige color.
Once the pullets are all "laying" we will start adding oyster shell shavings to their diet and take them off the higher protein developer food and onto a low protein supplement known as layer pellets. That will probably be in a week or two.
For now, we have only received two eggs from the new group after twenty-three weeks. Yay!
