Be honest, how often do you...

[toletiquesbysam]

I only check once, after work! I let them out at 6:30am and don't return home til about 5:30pm so that's when I go out and find the eggs!!

 

[gottalovemychickens]

7-8 times a day only because i have some egg eaters

 

[PortageGirl]

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I check mine twice a day, two lay early, two lay later, and the pullets lay at all kinds of crazy times so there's no way to predict it yet!

I can tell who lays each egg on the older hens, Two Golden Comets, each lay large brown eggs, Flora's is darker and larger than George's. There there's a peachy colored one from a whitish colored Ameracauna Muffin, it's very roundish and a little small, and the dark chocolatey brown Ameracauna Chica, lays a long narrow very pale barely bluish egg.

The pullets eggs are all changing and there's no way to tell who's is who's yet.

 

[AmyRey]

You have a hen named George?

 

[scarter]

When ever we're out there. Usually one to two times a day. If it's once then it's when we're closing down the farm.

 

[NatalieB]

I check wayyyyyyy more often then I should. I always think well maybe there will be one.........then the kids get home from school they wonder who collected all the eggs!

I smile and say daddy did it!

 

[fshinggrl]

I lose track!

Seriously!

 

[chickenlittle32]

umm.. alot lol

Honestly, depends on if we are home all day or working..home all day, either DH or I will check often..especially because we just love watching them...

 

[mmtillman]

I have an inverted bucket with a pillow on it ...every morning I sit on it in a quiet corner of the darkened coop ...sippin' my coffee

..as I am watching and learning the ways of my newly laying hens...I love the sounds and the little expressions they make during the laying process. I then go out every couple of hours, during the day now, to see what kind of progress they are making ...out of 21 hens I am now up to 6-7 eggs a day....

I just poured a glass of wine...think I will go sit a spell and watch them till it is time to fix supper....yeah....sounds like a good idea! cya !

 

[shaggy]

once a day on weekdays --- evenings when i let them out for a little free range action

twice a day on weekends --- afternoon and evening