This morning, while I was deep in sleep, my fiancé Will ran into our room and woke me up excitedly.
“Look!” He shook me under the covers until I grudgingly half-opened one eye.
There in his hand was a small, smooth, perfectly shaped, green-tinted egg. An egg! Our first egg ever from our chickens!
The egg came from our Easter Egger, Gisele, who is about 29 weeks old. With the chickens getting older and the days getting longer, I was rooting for one of them to start laying soon. I’m so proud of our little Gisele!
She laid the egg around 9 o’clock this morning, right when Will had opened the run to let the ladies out. He found her hunkered down on the roost inside the coop while the other two were already scratching out in the run. Afraid that she might have gotten sick, he tried to coax her out by tossing a handful of mealworms into the yard. The other chickens flapped and feverishly went after them. Gisele gingerly hopped down from the coop to see what all the fuss was, and as she stepped outside with her sisters, out popped an Easter egg! (I realize it doesn’t look very green in the pictures, but it definitely has a green hue in person.)
We are beyond excited (to the point of silliness, really — it’s almost as if one of us had laid the egg!) and have not decided what to do with it yet. For now our real-life Easter egg is living in a little dish in our kitchen, where we’ll show it off to friends for the next week!
I think its very exciting! You are making me want to grow duck eggs.
I wish I had duck eggs too!
Duck eggs require a large pond or a tiny lake, somewhere there are no pesticides no chemical fertilizers at all. Ducks can’t handle any pesticides or artificial/chemical anything. That’s all I remember.
I’ve heard that about freshly laid eggs, but I’ve also heard if you let them sit for a few days, they will be easier to peel. True or not?
True! Let eggs age for a week or two in the fridge, then hard boil ’em. Rinse in ice water and they peel like a dream.
How exciting! We had chickens once upon a time and it is exciting…nothing like fresh eggs….
If you hard boil them, they will be hard to peel….other than that, fresh eggs are brighter, yellower, and far more delicious….
enjoy!
Nancy
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I guess having grown up around chickens I forgot how exciting it was to get your first egg. I must say yours are a cool color though.
Congratulations on your first egg I enjoy harvesting my breakfast each morning
I finally have everything I need for a true garden-fresh omelette! (Just need a cow now… LOL.)
Pastel eggs are almost too pretty to eat. 😛
Pastel eggs are almost too pretty to eat. 😛
That’s so exciting. When I was a kid, we had Araucanas and they laid beautiful pastel colored eggs too. I love how you are so proud of Gisele : )
Pastel eggs are almost too pretty to eat!
I remember my first egg! How exciting!
Congrats! You know how a new restaurant frames their first dollar bill? I plan to remove the yolk and white from our first egg and display the shell!
Me too! I have just the perfect glass cloche to display the egg under.
I can remember our first duck egg from Jemimah, -she went on to lay 20 more and then sat on them for 22 days. Only one hatched that time.
Congratulations! My girl’s first egg was amazing, and so was getting two in one day when Derpy caught up with Leeloo and figured out egglaying!
I will be SO excited the day I see two or even three eggs in the coop!
How exciting! The egg is a beautiful color! Congrats