Finally got my first egg today!!!!!! Now I have a question......

[bamafan87]

How can i keep track of who lays what and when?

 

[Cotton42]

Do nothing but watch them all day! Really though, the only way I know of to do this, besides watching them, is to build trap nest box. There are a few threads about them if you do a search.

 

[crchickens]

LOL, I was wondering the same thing. I rescued 6 adult hens, around the same time my pullets started laying. My pullets eggs are easy to identify, because they are small, and some of them are being laid on the coop floor, UGH!!! I do not think all of the hens are laying, though, because I am not getting enough eggs. The one EE is laying regularly, and now the other one started laying, two green eggs yesterday. I have 4 brown egg layers from the rescued group, and I only get one or two large brown eggs a day. Not sure who is not laying, but I am pretty sure the BR is not laying at all. I can kind of tell by egg color, and catching them in the box, that my RSL pullets and my BO pullets are laying. I have yet to catch any of my BR pullets in the box, and I know for a fact that my leghorn has not laid, because I have no white eggs. I am glad you asked this question, because I wonder how one would know that a chicken is egg bound when they have 18 of them????

 

[real_redhead]

Food coloring on the vent, then you can tell who is laying. I haven't done it but there have been post about doing it! Good luck.

 

[bamafan87]

I got my 3rd egg today and I have been watching on my ip camera too see which one it was! She never could figure out which box she wanted and took her like 2 hours this afternoon and finally laid it!