r/Chicken Jul 30 '24

My chickens decided to lay their first eggs while I was gone

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I’m a little concerned for them because the two oldest both should be laying colorful eggs one is a prairie blue egger and the other one should be an Easter Egger also you can’t tell in the photo but they are kind of small. I mean I am still feeding them baby food because the other chickens are a couple weeks younger so they probably aren’t getting the right nutrition To produce eggs at the size that the eggs should be (at least I’m pretty sure eating baby food because I didn’t buy the food last time we went to the store) also I need a way that I can convince them to lay in the egg box instead of just laying in the roost

Also, I just realized that my Orpington looks like she is about to cry in that photo. I promise she is fine.

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u/Spirited-Rule8178 Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

I forgot to mention I don’t think my Easter Egger is a Easter Egger she doesn’t look how they’re “supposed” to and I got her from a feed store so these could be her eggs and she is just not a Easter Egger but even if these were her eggs, it leaves another problem of the Prairie blue Egger not producing eggs because she’s older than Easter Egger by week or two (my Easter egg is white with black spots and she doesn’t have the cheek fluff that most Easter eggers have)

Edit I think she might be a leghorn because she has a giant comb (I mean, it is ginormous) and white ear lobes

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u/DJPL-75 Jul 30 '24

I think their first are supposed to be small (don't quote me, I am a noob myself). As for the placement, just put a couple of golf balls in the nesting boxes.

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u/Spirited-Rule8178 Jul 30 '24

Yeah, I figured that out after I posted now I’m mostly just worried about the color because it’s not just one chicken laying