How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Spartan22]

PouleChick is in France, 5 hours ahead of us so she posted at 3:22 PM her time. If you are just starting your day, you don't get up with the chickens!

What I meant of starting my day, is my layers are just at the beginning of their laying day (7am - 6 pm) is when we normally find eggs, I got 29 layers ages 1 to 4 yrs old + 4 five month olds that just started laying.

Nope I don’t get up with chickens, I wake up earlier than them to scoop their poop boards before they come down from roosts so they won’t step on droppings before they lay their eggs (we don’t wash eggs) They let themselves in and out of their coop to their big secure runs too. So if I’m traveling which is often, the chickens are not coop up. Then I get ready for work by 7 am (works 10-12 hours) except today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

once a year I have a assessment as part of my disability took most my morning my sweetie went out cleaned my coops had 6 eggs one nest what a guy think I will keep him

 

[TwoCrows]

How many eggs did I get today? Do they make a bigger zero than this?

0!

 

[pennyJo1960]

sorry to hear that are they young or do not like the heat

 

[TwoCrows]

sorry to hear that are they young or do not like the heat

I guess I can't expect eggs from 8 yr old hens.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I guess I can't expect eggs from 8 yr old hens.

not really but nice you let them live out their time

 

[TwoCrows]

not really but nice you let them live out their time

Yep, forever homes around here, laying or not.

 

[bruceha2000]

Nope I don’t get up with chickens, I wake up earlier than them to scoop their poop boards before they come down from roosts so they won’t step on droppings before they lay their eggs (we don’t wash eggs)

With that many hens you must have a pretty big coop. Mine is a 10x12 converted horse stall. I don't bother with poop boards, I put a fair amount of pine shavings on the floor and rake it every morning. Takes a minute or two. I don't wash eggs either unless they need it and that usually means the odd one laid from the roost.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have my geodesic dome is quite large have had it 4 almost 5 years

Coop 042

• pennyJo1960
• Jun 28, 2018

this is the outside after the door was framed and has held up for 4 years as my main coop 17...

this is the pony wall we put up to keep chickens in and predators out, I am buying burlap to add to the walls for warmth

• pennyJo1960
• Dec 29, 2015

 

[karenerwin]

@PouleChick, your Copper Marans has a lot of Copper on the back and wings, and the slow grow tail feather, comb almost too prominent, am suspecting a rooster.

I had just checked my 2 week olds Marans and it seems like I’m going to have 13-14 roosters from 22 chick hatched.

Once I hatched 11 Black Penedsencas and got 9 roosters and only 2 hens. It happens.