The Golden Egg: Part 3 of Our Chicken Keeping Adventure

This look-back is meant to thoroughly introduce you to why we have chickens.  Updates of our chickens' progress can be found on our Facebook and in additional blog posts. - The American Haggard Housewife

     Waiting on the lousy first egg was a trial to say the least.  Whoever thought that a single solitary egg could be such a long, annoying, and exasperating wait has never had chickens.  They are an investment in your money, your time, and your sanity, and that first egg, that lone golden egg, is the most expensive one of all.  

     Think about it.  If your chickens only lay one egg, no matter how much money you have invested in them, that egg costs all of the money, time, and sanity that you invested into the poultry enterprise, no matter how large or small it may be.  And, after recently totaling our personal investment into said chickens, I can attest that our first egg is one GOLDEN egg.  

     I still don't know which of the ladies laid it, but after referring to them as "freeloaders" since Week 16 as they were clearly interested in the expensive GMO-free organic grain we've been indulging them with, but certainly not in holding up their end of the bargain, there on Week 22 it was sitting in a pile of "manure" under the roosts.

     Sure, it wasn't in the proper location, and I'll have to get some "fake eggs" (probably golf balls or whatever else I can locate around the house) to move their nesting into the laying boxes, but who cares?!  It's an egg!  (Sure, we'll care later if they continue to not lay in the nesting boxes.)  

     Like my mother informed my cousin who asked last month if we had gotten eggs yet, "Of course not!  You know there will be 1000s of picture of that first egg."  Sure enough, she was right, and I had to take multiples of our XXS egg.  (For those of you who waited so long for your first egg, you probably ended up taking pictures too!)  

     And, when we finally crack it, there will probably be pictures of whatever it's made into a well, because it will always be our first egg.  It will hopefully; however, be the most expensive egg we'll ever have to crack, as the next egg will share the burden of the distributed cost and therefore each egg will be a little more cost effective in the end.  One can dream, right?  

P.S. - If anyone is keeping track, that was a whooping 157 days after we got the 3-day old chicks (so that's 160 days after they were born, we've managed a single egg).  

NOW AVAILABLE! Bawk, Bawk: Part 4 of Our Chicken Keeping Adventure