The Great Chicken Adventure: Week 19

Surprise! Surprise! After expectantly checking nest boxes every day for the last several weeks, I am SO happy to finally have collected my first eggs! Only two hens must be laying, because Ive gotten one egg per day plus two days Ive collected two. They are pullet eggs, meaning that they are smaller than the egg of a fully mature hen. I think its the dark brown hens that are laying, since that's who Ive caught sitting in the nest box. She lays her egg in the afternoon, as I haven't collected it before two in the afternoon. So now that some are laying, Im switching their feed to the laying mash, as soon as my scratch feed is done. Im very happy that they are laying in the nest boxes - sometimes birds wont use the boxes, and if the eggs are on the floor theyre more likely to pick up the habit of eating their eggs. Recently the roosters have been fighting more - the longer I put off butchering, the harder it is to decide who will have to go. They'll be well fed when their time rolls around though!