Lunch Lays Her First Egg!
February 9th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Me with the proud pullet
It’s been a long time coming—eight months tomorrow, to be exact—but Lunch finally laid an egg! A big light-blue egg, perfectly shaped and everything. What a big day at GBirds HQ!
Lunch's blue egg (left) means she's an Easter Egger, not a brown-egg-laying Welsummer after all. Surprise!
Here’s Lunch’s first egg next to a large brown egg from the store. Not too shabby for a first-timer! Pullet eggs are often tiny, but Lunch does everything big. All morning she paced back and forth, jumped in and out of the nest box, made a LOT of noise. She finally settled into the nest box and got quiet. Josh peeked into the hutch and saw Lunch gathering straw around her. I worked on the patio, waiting anxiously like an expectant parent.
After 10 minutes or so of eerie quiet, Lunch toddled down the hutch ramp and had a long drink of water. She was so quiet I thought for sure she had done her job, but I didn’t have the nerve to peek in the hutch, having been disappointed so many times before. So of course I sent Josh in there. He walked into the coop, peered into the nest, then turned around with this big egg. Huzzah!
I think this egg cost approximately $10 million or so, but it was totally worth it.
Tags: Chickens · GBirds Pets & People
10 responses so far ↓
1 jan m // Feb 9, 2009 at 8:07 pm
How eggciting! I can see how proud you are of her!
2 Stu // Feb 10, 2009 at 10:50 am
too bad the “eggciting” line got taken already, but congrats on an eggscellent job by Lunch! I bet that is going to be one awesome tasting egg.
3 Iris // Feb 10, 2009 at 10:58 am
It is an eggstra-special event, wouldn’t you say?
Funny thing is that I can’t bear to crack this first egg. Might blow it out and display the intact shell.
4 Connie // Feb 10, 2009 at 11:49 am
I’m so egg-cited and I can hardly type!!!!!!!!! May you have many, many more egg-citing days.
5 JT // Feb 10, 2009 at 1:26 pm
The whole eggsperience was eggsistential. As the world falls apart around us, the egg arrived to elevate our spirits like some kind of deus eggs machina. Having an eggless chicken for so long has a real neggative effect on the eggo.
Off topic – did you read the latest edition of The Eggs-Men? Awesome. Wolverine is my hero.
6 mc // Feb 10, 2009 at 8:08 pm
When I was in 2nd grade I got my first chicken “Clucker”…and can remember being so excited every time she made an egg. Thanks for sharing in your excitement..I do think too that I was the first to predict that you would eventually become the “owners” of the little chicks your neighbors had you watch for them…at least now you might save on $$ at the grocery store.
7 Mary // Feb 10, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Go, Lunch, Go! Congrats Iris – no matter how much that beautiful egg cost.
8 Carolyn Powell // Feb 11, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Congratulations are in order all around. Now, how much will those be per dozen?
9 Debora Pinkos // Mar 4, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I am so glad to have found this site! My husband and I used to have chickens on our property in Michigan. Since moving to Greensboro we have not been able to raise them. I love the sound first thing in the morning as the hens begin to stir. Do you have a rooster as well?
10 Iris // Mar 4, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Welcome, Debora! No roosters here. I couldn’t do that to my neighbors. Maybe someday when we move way out in the country.
Unless you live in a place with an HOA, you should be able to keep hens. I’m pretty sure they’re legal in Greensboro.
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