Our first egg arrived on Valentines Day. Since then we've averaged about 5 eggs per day. The first several eggs a hen lays are small and called pullet eggs (a pullet is a young hen that has not started laying yet). According to Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, ". . . pullets lay small eggs when they first start out and they lay one egg every three to four days. By the time a hen is 30 weeks old her eggs reach their normal size and she should lay at least two eggs every three days." Our hens are about 23 weeks - so we should have full-sized eggs by early April.
Lovely brown eggs
Large store egg and a pullet egg
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