Donna C Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Hi , congrats on u're 1st egg, our orpington layed 30th dec, quite small eggs but perfectly formed. Think red bits are just blood spots but sure someone more knowing will come along soon. Just hoping my other orpington will lay soon . Not had any eggs for long time as had these from 9 weeks. Yipee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NannyOgg Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Our lovely Esme (Buff Orpington) gave us a slightly belated christmas present on Boxing Day of our first ever egg! Since then she has laid us an egg every day except for New Years Eve (maybe she was in the party mood?!). I'm surprised on two counts - firstly I expected the early eggs to be small and soft shelled, but they have all been a good size, perfectly formed and with strong shells...and secondly, according to everything I've read, the Orpington isn't a great layer, so I only expected 50-100 eggs a year from Esme, and yet she's given us 7 eggs in 8 days! Esme sitting on... ..our very first egg! our first three eggs, all from Esme None of the other five are laying yet, so we're all guessing who will give us our next egg! Ooh, a quick question for all you experts - six of the eggs have been plain shelled, but one was speckley in appearance, red dots - I wondered if it was red mite, but nothing before or since, and when I went out with my torch to see if I could see any mite in the night time, I couldn't see anything - any ideas what the red speckles on that one egg might be? The speckley egg! Tina p.s. posted this in the wrong forum initially, sorry for duplicate post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Congratulations on your first egg . The spots are probably just pigmentation, you often get odd spots and speckles on eggs . (I'm presuming you can't rub them off?) EDIT: I've merged your two threads but picked the wrong one to delete so they're out of order time-wise . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NannyOgg Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Thanks for merging the threads No I can't rub it off, I wondered about pigmentation, but all the other eggs have been flawless...I did wonder if one of the others had laid an egg, but there haven't been any similar eggs since, so I ruled that out! Tina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Toffee's eggs some days are quite speckled other days more of a plain colour, lovely green but she seems to have given up laying at the moment It always surprises me that eggs vary so much from the same girl, when you just buy eggs, eggs are just eggs but when they come from your own chooks they are so special and you notice all the differences Well done Esme , she looks beautiful Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickyhazel Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Congratulations on your 1st eggs As that egg is so different to the others I expect its a different chicken - most purebreeds only lay one egg a week, if that, over winter anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NannyOgg Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 All the others are definitely Esme; she hops into the nestbox, sits there for half an hour and then riddles off out leaving us her present! I have been so surprised, not a single soft shell, all uniform shape and size; 49-56g. Whoever laid the mystery egg, I'm getting a lot more than I expected...an egg a day regular as clockwork since boxing day, except new years eve. Maybe Esme's a hybrid in disguise! Am beginning to think the mystery egg was Esme too, simply because none of the others even bother with the nesting box in the daytime (but all like to snuggle in together at night!). I might set up some CCTV! Tina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
