Egg collecting

[Mommysongbird]

Right now we are still trying to figure out who is laying and who is NOT, so we are collecting twice a day, morning and afternoon.

We are trying to watch who is going in to the coop and laying in the boxes (lying there, not nessacerily laying an egg) and then watch for them to come back out of the coop and then see if there is anything. Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't. That same pullet will sometimes go back in the coop withing about 5 or 6 minutes later.

I think they are still just getting use to things, so it may be a while before we figure out who is laying what?? So far we are getting mainly white eggs, and some green/blue ones, but have not figured out who is laying them.

 

[AlienChick]

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Ahh, yes, if the concern was about safety of eating eggs left in the nest a while, I missed that. But Moetrout is right: unless there is broody hen setting on the eggs to incubate them, eggs can be gathered as much as four days later. Plus, I keep mine on my kitchen counter for weeks. I only refrigerate the "dirty" eggs, after I wash them.. Washing removes the "bloom" that helps keep the shells sealed.

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I am always going out to the coop, so I collect eggs probably 5 times a day. I leave them on the kitchen counter.
I was gone recently for a week out of town and one of my hens went broody and is sitting on a pile of stolen eggs.
I'm not eating those.

I moved her to a large dog crate so no one else lays in her nest.