Ended CONTEST #5 10th BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long. Natural egg contest!

[ShrekDawg]

They are bantam and standard chicken eggs. Soon I will get about 40-50 eggs, maybe more a day. Most get fed back to the birds.

The one speckled one looks huge like a turkey one or something!! Lol and oh wow that is a lot!!!

That’s like... 4 dozen eggs A DAY!? I was thinking one dozen a day was a lot!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

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[Kiki]

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[jolenesdad]

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Those olivvvves.

 

[ShrekDawg]

 

[ShrekDawg]

Those olivvvves.

Believe it or not those are actually from one of my Easter Eggers and not even an Olive Egger!! she is a very dependable layer too. First to start laying at like 22 weeks (though and Orpington started the same day), good winter layer, first to resume laying this year around January, daily layer. I just love her. meanwhile, my other one took over 7 months off

 

[jolenesdad]

Believe it or not those are actually from one of my Easter Eggers and not even an Olive Egger!! she is a very dependable layer too. First to start laying at like 22 weeks (though and Orpington started the same day), good winter layer, first to resume laying this year around January, daily layer. I just love her. meanwhile, my other one took over 7 months off

I had a six monther this year, she has mine beat!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I had a six monther this year, she has mine beat!

I think she even stopped laying a little before that. The 7 months was when she started molting (August) but she was slacking before then too!!! She didn’t start laying till 3 weeks ago lol if they weren’t pets and she didn’t keep them safe free ranging (flighty and first to alarm) she might be soup LOL so far since she started though she has been consistent and daily layer so I hope she keeps it up sometimes she is not consistent at all even when she was younger. She started slowing down even that second year. They’re all 3 1/2 now. And I still have some slackers I think

 

[ShrekDawg]

I wish I had a rooster so I could pass on the good EE’s genes lol but alas, I don’t and they are all too old now. she doesn’t lay the biggest eggs but she is my best layer. And I have Australorps, a Barred Rock, and Orpingtons.

 

[The Phantom]