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[brucifer]

Dallas, Georgia here with 12 black Australorps (11 hens, 1 Roo). They turned 20 weeks old today. How much longer till I get my first egg?

You may want to start giving your girls a few hours of pre-dawn supplemental light in the hen house if you want them to lay. It doesn't harm the birds at all, and you can have lots of eggs all through late fall and winter.

Use a timer on the light so you don't have to get up at 4:30 a.m. each day to flip on the switch. Best of luck.

 

[ChickenSmurf]

You may want to start giving your girls a few hours of pre-dawn supplemental light in the hen house if you want them to lay. It doesn't harm the birds at all, and you can have lots of eggs all through late fall and winter.

Use a timer on the light so you don't have to get up at 4:30 a.m. each day to flip on the switch. Best of luck.

Thank you - will try this!

 

[Super_Girl]

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[Lookin4GoodLife]

Use a timer on the light so you don't have to get up at 4:30 a.m. each day to flip on the switch. Best of luck.

Yeah, when I did this last year, I wasn't thinking and set my timer to give them extra light time in the evening. Chickens don't like it when they're pecking around and the light suddenly goes off and they can't find their roost.

 

[Lookin4GoodLife]

Y'all settled back in at your old place yet Bruce? Hope everything's going well.

 

[Flowerbh]

Ummm, renters left a half dozen of 'large' eggs in the fridge. I weighed the eggs and 3 of the 6 weighed at 'medium' size! What a rip-off!

 

[Flowerbh]

Those were store bought eggs

 

[Lady Who]

Those were store bought eggs

I was talking about that with my mother. She has to buy eggs this month because of molting chickens and she was making bread and it messed up. I say it was the eggs because my eggs has never messed up cooking projects.

 

[brucifer]

Y'all settled back in at your old place yet Bruce? Hope everything's going well.

We've technically moved back in, but we have a lot things to do before we're truly settled. Thanks for asking.

 

[brucifer]

Ummm, renters left a half dozen of 'large' eggs in the fridge. I weighed the eggs and 3 of the 6 weighed at 'medium' size! What a rip-off!

The price of eggs has gotten so low that's it's hard to be ripped off as long as you have 12 eggs in the carton, even if they don't make weight. Last week at the Carrollton Aldi's we bought 4 dozen eggs for 32¢ per dozen (less than 3¢ per egg). Heck, an empty egg carton at TSC runs 49¢.