Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
There it is, as beautiful as you imagined it would be! The first egg has finally arrived!
Congratulations!
Your big girls are ready for layer rations now, and it's time to switch to a new feed
.
AM I SUPPOSED TO EAT THOSE?!
After all your patient waiting, your girls have finally rewarded you for all that good care.
However, those first eggs may not be what you had in mind. Sometimes they'll be so
tiny, they'll look like robins' eggs. And some may not even have a yolk. Occasionally
you'll get an egg laid without a shell—just a kind of white membrane holding a small
yolk. Those first eggs may have specks or streaks of blood on them, too.
All of this is normal. An eighteen- to twenty-week-old pullet needs to mature into her
new occupation. Hens need to work up to those jumbo eggs you're used to seeing in the
store. I promise you, though, even that first little pullet egg will be worlds apart from
any store-bought variety.
Honey's eggs are consistently round and fat in appearance—more of an oval than
an egg shape.
