Found 73 eggs!!

[ChocolateWingTheRooster]

I am kinda still in shock... Probably will just give them to the cats and chickens, as both really like eggs...

But here’s the thing I was wondering about... how long have my chickens been laying here!? Only three chickens were involved in this!

 

[PPPF]

Jack pot!! We’re you getting other eggs somewhere else as well from them?

 

[ChocolateWingTheRooster]

Jack pot!! We’re you getting other eggs somewhere else as well from them?

Yeah!
No! (Well, maybe from the chicken laying the brown eggs? There was much less from her!) I had thought the white egg layers had stopped laying altogether!

Of course, I was still getting eggs. Just from the other 7 chickens.

 

[BFen]

That's crazy! Looks like a pile of turtle eggs

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I am kinda still in shock... Probably will just give them to the cats and chickens, as both really like eggs...

But here’s the thing I was wondering about... how long have my chickens been laying here!? Only three chickens were involved in this!

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73 ÷ 3 = 24. If your hens have all been laying an egg a day faithfully (not likely), the oldest egg in this clutch could be 24 days old. A potentially explosive, and stinky, situation! Proceed with caution! At least you know you don't have any skunks in the area ....

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Er ... how do you know only 3 hens were involved in this?

 

[ChocolateWingTheRooster]

Er ... how do you know only 3 hens were involved in this?

I only have two white egg layers, and only one of my chickens lay light brown eggs similar to some of those!

 

[ChocolateWingTheRooster]

That's crazy! Looks like a pile of turtle eggs

It really does!

 

[NanaKat]

I am kinda still in shock... Probably will just give them to the cats and chickens, as both really like eggs...

But here’s the thing I was wondering about... how long have my chickens been laying here!? Only three chickens were involved in this!

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73 eggs divide by three that's 24 days assuming each hen lays an egg every day of the week. Definitely dog food or scramble them and feed back to the flock. Looks like a hidden Guinea flock nest.

 

[sylviethecochin]

73 ÷ 3 = 24. If your hens have all been laying an egg a day faithfully (not likely), the oldest egg in this clutch could be 24 days old. A potentially explosive, and stinky, situation! Proceed with caution! At least you know you don't have any skunks in the area ....

There do not appear to be anywhere near 24 brown ones in there, meaning that the brown culprit was likely a late confederate of the plot. So the whities may have been laying there a bit longer than that...

Chickens, I swear.