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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10/12 again for me yesterday. That makes 71/84 the last week! The girls are loving spring and since the sap on my maples is starting to run better.... so am I!
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    3 straight days of 9/12 even with the temp bottoming out at -21° overnight. It was the first time is got below zero IN the coop also. They seem unfazed.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    The garden is a pipe dream right now. I started onion seeds on Sunday but I'm still staring at 4-5 feet of snow in the yard and the house was popping and cracking last night as we dropped to -21° overnight. 14° right now feels positively balmy but the anticipation for spring is really starting...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I have a Buff Brahma who's my newest layer of the bunch that lays a completely freckled egg. Sticks out from the rest of the flock.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10/12 yesterday, in the middle of our blizzard! The ladies didn't stray too far from the coop as it was accumulating in the covered run, blowing in with the NE wind.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Yeah I like that... some don't stick out enough to get a name. My Barred Rocks are like that. I can try to tell them apart by little frostbitten comb tips, lol. I had a rooster I had to rehome because they're against local ordinance and I'd called it Suzy when it was a chick and my newness to...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I'm new to the idea of any livestock, but that's kind of my intent with any names... being able to know who's who in case of illness and just when I'm referring to them when talking to my wife or what not. They're not whimsical names... just descriptive like Red for my red EE and Duckwing for...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    My wife's parents got me moleskine notebooks for Christmas because I love graph paper and over analysis of things. It gets confusing because some chickens have names, some don't and I can never be totally sure who laid what when it comes to the breeds I have multiples of. But it does look...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    9/12 today.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    11/12... all before 1pm. Oh so close to my ladies' first perfect day!
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    8/12
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    @lazy gardener My wife tells me the same thing about the intervention... I told her I could quit seeds anytime I wanted, but it's not a problem I swear!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My seed, tree and supply orders are in... an amalgamation of Fedco, Pinetree and Johnny's products. Thankfully the misses has given me the corner in the basement that used to be her yarn storage, ball-winding, etc. area and let me turn it into my own seed starting annex. Or as I call it my...
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    New Hampshire!

    I guess I shouldn't worry, since these girls are fine every day but I catch myself counting them up as they pour out of the coop: "Four BRs, there's my Aussies, 2 EEs and the Brahmas, wait where's - oh there's the Wyandotte. Phew!" But still they coming rambling out at full speed, even at -10°...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    8/11/12... One frozen solid And cracked... Didn't get it in time.
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