Each of the girls gave me an egg this morning, so 7 eggs. The nest box must've been crowded this morning because one hen's aim was off and her egg landed on the wooden side of the box and cracked.
6 eggs (so far) today. Might get a 7th.
I picked up a box of produce scraps from the grocery store yesterday. There were several big handfuls of lettuce leaves and each chicken got 1/4 of a watermelon, probably around 2 pounds for each bird. All of it was eaten within a few hours. They got a...
7 out of 7 again. One had a little divot broken into the shell, I guess from dropping directly on another egg when it was laid. The membrane didn't break so it's still edible.
Weird thing, the chickens almost always push the fake egg out of the way so they're not sitting on it. They prefer the...
7 from 7 again today, but one was big and wrinkled/corrugated, with an extra piece of shell stuck to it in one spot. There are lots of possible causes for corrugated shells but it happens so rarely so I'm not worried about it at the moment. Probably stress related.
ETA: it had a single yolk...