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Got another egg this afternoon. If they take off like our last bunch, we really will be swimming in eggs. Had a few rhode Island reds, bantams and leghorns (12 total) and got an average of 13 eggs/day! The most I ever got was 18 in one day from 12 chickens!!

My wife called me excited this morning because we got our first egg from this group!! Here is a picture of the first egg next to a store bought Large egg to show size. Yippee!! Thanks for the advice everyone, I'm sure it helped! Now, the rest of the chickens have full, red, waxy combs...

lol... thanks for the illustration!

They have been on layena since Monday. I figured it might take some time to get them switched over, but I am a bit surprised that I haven't gotten any eggs yet out of 14 birds. I have been giving them the corn mainly as scratch out in the run, something to keep them occupied. I never really...

Okay, they are currently on full free access to Purina Layena, oyster shells, grit, and grass, with the occasional ear of corn to pick on. Should they have anything else? I have golf balls in the nesting boxes, and still no eggs My grandpa wants me to butcher these and buy some hens that...

Thanks for the replies. When I got these chickens, I handpicked each one of them, with no input from the seller, so I don't think I got any even from the same group, most likely. I knew that this was a lot of change, but I was nearly sure that they would have started laying for me by now. I...

I picked up 14 production reds last week Monday. The guy I Bought them from said that they had all come into their eggs and they were between 8 and 11 months old. They were also beginning to molt. He had 100+ running around his yard, and I got the last full feathered ones. (maybe a mistake...