How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

7/7 what a bunch of good girls! I've been baking ALOT!
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It's a MIRACLE! 6 eggs today.. Most we've gotten since last winter.

I need to take a pic... my Ameraucanas are laying some of the BLUEST eggs I've seen.
 
We've gotten 24, 23, 23 and 22 eggs for the past four days from our 29 GC's. They've been working hard in all this bitter cold here in Central NC so far. I think it helped that we put back up our tarps on the north, east, and west sides of the run so it forms a windbreak for them. We left the south side open so they can get the sun all day when it's out. Last night it got down to 12F but when I opened the coop doors at 7:00 it was a balmy 38.5F inside. One thing I've been doing is to fill their big plastic waterer with very hot water and sitting it inside the coop with them before I close them up for the night and I take it out in the morning. The coop is 4d'x8w'x4h' and I've been sitting it over in the corner away from the roosting bars so they don't make a mess on it. I think it's been helping on these bitterly cold nights. It's more than 100' from the nearest outlet so I can't very well run a cord down and put in a heat lamp so this is what I think is a good solution to the problem.
 
I've got 13,12,15,and 12 out of 15 the last four days, and 7 so far today! On track for another good day! After not having enough light they stopped laying all togther and are now back on their regular cycle!
 
I got 23 eggs out of 23 chickens. I put a light in their coop in September and it comes on every morning at 4:30 am and stays on till 8:00 am. It is also only 20 degrees out with blowing and drifting snow.
 

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