How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[pennyJo1960]

12/15 - one black copper Marans decided to contribute egg today after long break. Beautiful sunny day in 50s in NE Ohio.

same 9/14 as of now, been really nice here in Western Washington like in the 50's too even sun I hide from keep it at my back making a dog bed from an old blanket for my gsd

 

[gander007]

Saturday



8 eggs

4 eggs from the control group

4 eggs from the free range chickens

Temp 69F outside but it has been windy all day and the shads and the house it is 74F degrees with out any heat source how funny and at 5am it was 61F degrees with a light steady wind anyway with 20 MPH winds there wasn't any work accomplished outside so I just towed a truck for a friend from one side of town to another so he would have a garage to work in out of the wind ....... Well tomorrow it is spouse to rain so I will just wait and see ......

 

[AuntNomi]

5/8

 

[tbee407]

3/4

 

[charleschicken]

0/8 and the weather is getting better I just don't get it.
I did find lice on them possibly they are stressed.

 

[Daethen]

Ended with 10/14 today. Not bad considering I had a dozen 2 days in a row before that.

 

[lexielou623]

7/7 chicken and 1/2 duck. Good day!!

 

[Pi-Co]

I got 4 eggs from 3 hens hmmm maybe the one rooster I thought I had is a little lady

 

[gander007]

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Wow karenerwin that is quit the setup you have sounds very safe for your chickens I bet you have very few losses from the wild life . I have one big fence that goes around my yard that is 180' X 300' with two fences that cut the yards into three yards 180' X 50' and the forth yard is 180' X 150' and the biggest yard is for the geese but they like to crawl under the fence and get to yard one and eat all the chicken feed and yes they make their rounds for food basically the geese are the bullies of the property but the guinea are the protectors and they pay with their lives so every year I have to replenish them as they may scare off or keep the bobcats, fox & domestic pets at bay but with out my help the guinea loose their feathers. But I also have some sheds I use for the girls to live in but the chickens choose to roost on the old unused swamp coolers instead of going inside and I loose way to many eggs from then making a nest under the sheds and since I have no overhead cover on the coops the crows tend to get a good deal of the eggs but the crows do keep the red tailed hawks at bay so there is a trade off I guess. My Spangled Russian Orloff hens started laying today and I got two eggs but one was cracked so the other egg went into the incubator and my BCM hens have been laying regularly for the last two weeks so I think I am taking them out of the control group peen soon and going them their own room in the shed for some fertile eggs and Tex will be taken out of the free range and cooped up with the girls he should like that ..


This is Buddy my Russian Orloff roo ...





This is one of my Spangled Russian Orloff girls .. Side View ..





She has such a pretty face I think ..




My birds get a verity of feed from dry to cooked but first the dry feed thy get 16% also laying pellets some corn mostly for the geese and ducks and something called three way with barley rolled corn and oats but for the cooked feed they get beans and rice which all of the birds seem to love oh only the free range birds get the cooked feed and the control group chickens get a mix of the dry feed .... The chicks get chick starter with 24% protein and several times a week when I have to many eggs the chicks get ether boiled or scrambled and I do believe it really helps them grow stronger and much better feather growth ....


I will post photos of a pair of my BCM's later

This is Tex my BCM roo at 6 months of age he is a year now and getting his cockle feather color now ...






My guinea out for a walk ..





Yep the goslings are having eggs for breakfast .....





The free range is a gathering of different sizes and species ...






Sometimes ya just have to line everyone up in the brooder for inspection

Feeding time at the zoo





Yes this is a live Bob Cat and he or she is the main predator now I had to talk to a top trapper in the King Dom of California so I could shoot these or live trap them and it is easer to blast them then it is to get them into a cage and if trapped the animal control only takes them ten miles and lets the go free .



I hope I explained how my operation works for all to understand

gander007

 

[charleschicken]

0/8 once again and its been in the 50's here central Indiana so Im at a complete loss I inspected the birds and did find lice so I will take care of that 5 of the birds have a moist vent and large abdomen but three don't and those three are going on the chopping block the others have until spring otherwise they will go the same way.