The First Egg!

I am pleased to announce that my dear chickens have laid their very first egg!  I came across it on July 14th.  The girls were 21 weeks old.  Granted, only one of them is laying as far as I can tell, but I'm sure the others are not too far behind.

I'm pretty certain that this egg belongs to one of the barred rock girls since they are the one's spending more time in the coop and kicking up a ruckus like they have something important to say.  Guess that means they get to stay.  Even better is the fact that once this egg appeared, I had an egg each day after that, so I hope she stays this regular!  I can only wish that the rest of the girls follow her good example and start laying soon!