This month has seen a return to our usual numbers! 7 dozen eggs on my counter, not including our personal skelter 😅 15 today. Our new Polish is very consistent even though I needed two of her eggs for each egg in a nest at dinner tonight lol. The WTBs laid their second egg and it was so tiny!
It’s been pretty slow lately, between the heat, broodies, and losing our best layer. I was able to find a Polish hen since we might only have one out of all our straight runs chicks. Not even a week in her new home and she laid us this bitty gem 😍
A few days of high heat and we only got 9 eggs yesterday, never seen such low numbers in months! But a cold front moved through and dropped it about 30°, bumper crop of 14 eggies this morning. Still need to see if anyone had afternoon eggs and if my new nesting pads freaked them out lol. Our...
I never imagined we’d never have enough eggs! Ev is almost always sold out and the ladies are averaging 16 eggs a day. Today Jaguar gave us this stunning green! Usually it’s barely tinted and almost impossible to distinguish from Penguin’s. Definitely one for my collection 😍
Another 16/19 today, they seem to have really responded to the worming! I need to do the round and will likely have to nab them on the roost. Giving them a heart attack while we’re locked down and having too many similar colours is making it difficult 😩
15 eggs!!! Finally got our BCM laying whole eggs again and our cream layer started again after several weeks of nothing. They were wormed last week and maybe that helped? One was a double yolker too!
Our BCM is struggling with soft eggs 😭 They have oyster shell, but I’m going to crush up the Easter egg shells to give them just in case. Her last few eggs have been so fragile and get eaten in the nest, soooooo messy. Then one of the SLW laid this true Easter egg today! Pink with blue dots!
Ev says she say a SLW sitting, so we’re pretty certain they laid this stunner!
One of the WJG are still sitting, so it’s looking like another full dozen today. We had 6 dozen eggs picked up this week and still overflowing after spring break 😅
Our first full dozen 🎉
In other news, Ugly the mystery chick has started laying. It’s brown… She’s one of the nicest chickens we have though, so I can’t let her go. She grows on you lol
This is the same one I got, but different seller. Someone in a FB group keeps posting Amazon super deal finds, so now we have our Christmas hat and scarf ready for next year, the chicken pen Lego set, and this 😂 But I’ve not spent over $10 for everything total, so can’t complain!