Last night I found our first pullet egg. One of the cutest things. As you can see it's quite small compared to the adult chicken egg. For those of you who don't know a pullet is it's a young chicken in it's first year of life. They stop being called a chick after they grow in their feathers and are no longer little fluff bombs.
It's a little late in the season for them to start laying. Sometimes chickens don't lay their first year. The cold weather effects their bodies and can drastically reduce egg production, which is what has happened with my other chickens. Also the amount of sunlight has an effect on egg production. Once the weather warms up in the spring and the days are longer their bodies go into overdrive.
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