Found a hen in the street "Backyard Chicken"

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Looks like one of my pullets turned out to be a brain surgeon in disguise. The others were crowding around to tell her how smart they think she is.

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ETA: Concerning introducing new chickens to an existing flock, the common advice is to introduce the new birds by placing them in some enclosure (their own pen, or a crate or something) where all the chickens can see each other, but not kill each other. I'm already too well established on the chicken website to use this picture as the perfect troll post. Something along the lines of "How many days should I separate my new hen before I let her mingle with the flock?!?"

The red chicken at the top of the above photo is about to lay her first egg any day now. When she does, I'll probably make an informative post about it. I even heard her sing the egg song two days ago, but haven't heard it again. The egg song is what they do when they're laying the eggs. Here is an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNa5mkjR7A

I played this video for the chickens the other day and the Easter Egger (Chipmunk), just below the red one in the picture above started doing it, but she's not close to laying.

Marking the date. Found the first egg this afternoon when I got home. First eggs are usually small. I hear that often first eggs are misshapen or have no shell, or a soft shell, or some other abnormality. This one looks pretty good, just about half the size of store bought eggs. I fully expect all my hens to lay eggs at least the size of store bought eggs, but time will tell. Chicken is 19 weeks old. I think that is about a month before I expected. Per the numbers alone I could have all four of my older girls laying by the end of next month, but two of them don't really seem like they're getting close yet. The other two are about 6 weeks to two months younger.

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Store bought egg on the right.
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Store bought egg - what size was it?

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That's a great question to which I do not know the answer. My best guess is extra large on the store bought egg. Here is a picture with a Jumbo Pekin duck egg on the left, two store bought eggs in the middle, and the new chicken egg on the right. Pekin egg is about 2 3/4" tall, store bought 2 1/2" tall, and new chicken 1 7/8" tall.

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This is really cool!

I'm really failing at getting the scale of the photos. The second photo makes the store bought egg look enormous but it is probably what is in most people's fridge right now. The last picture with the duck egg they all look small but that duck egg looks enormous in person.

Well, size is relative:

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She laid another egg today, slightly larger.

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