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Yep... finally, after much anticipation we have finally got our first egg. It arrived sometime on Monday 5th January 2009. It's fairly small and a relatively white egg. Here's a photo of the first egg: I *think* it came from Wilma, mainly as she was exhibiting some very strange behaviour on Sunday where she dug a hole and then dustbathed in it. Whilst that wasn't that strange... it was the way in which she did it. Also as I am expecting Betty (Australorp) to lay a darker coloured egg... but that could just be my misconceptions. And here I was waiting for the crouching behaviour etc and watching for red combs etc.

We bought a couple of chickens last weekend from the  Chicks r Us  farm (Barter and Sons Hatchery).  We bought from them as I was very keen on getting an Australorp (black coloured chicken) rather than the normal Isa Brown. We ended up getting one  Australorp  (now named Betty) and one  Rhode Island Red  (now named Wilma). Day one was freezing so we kept the 5 old chicks in our bathtub. Pics from Day one are on the right. We brought the home in a box which was originally for Compost Worms.  The 'cheeped' all the way home!   In addition to the two chooks, we purchased a chicken feeder and some chicken feed.  Due to the young age of the chickens (we wanted Point of Lay but chickens are in high demand, so the oldest we could get was 5 weeks), we purchased $10 worth of chick feed and a bag of normal chicken feed.  Total cost of chickens, chicken feed holder and chicken feed and credit card fees: $68.11. There of course was lots of preparation work before the chickens could be '...