I have a 6 month old RIR pullet that started laying at 4 mos. She lays a nice egg and it has gradually increased in size but is still pretty small so I don't like to put them in my customers eggs.
Well last Friday the 7th I was packaging eggs up and noticed that I was 5 eggs shy on my last dozen needed. I called my mother to see if she wouldn't mind some small pullet eggs, she said "great, they are eggs big or small." I used 5 of the nine small eggs that I had, leaving me with 4, one was a BO pullet egg and the others where the RIR's.
I only have the one RIR pullet and the one BO pullet that have just started laying, the rest of my birds in that flock are 1.5 years old. I only collect eggs from this coop and my Welsummer coop. I do not have any other birds of laying age yet in my other 4 coops, so I know eggzactly who and where these eggs are coming from. Only having the one RIR, she is the only one that I get that color egg from.
The BO pullet only gives me 3 eggs a week and she started laying at 4.5 mos.
So... here's my confusion:
Yesterday my mother came over to get her hair cut and permed and asked if I had an extra dozen eggs because she would like to start getting 2 doz. every other week. I went to the fridge and counted my eggs and told her that I did have an extra dozen but they would all be the small pullet eggs.
I took all of the eggs out of the fridge and took out the only the small pullet eggs from every carton. She went home with 23 small pullet eggs and one huge blue egg.
4 where left over from last Friday- 1 was a BO egg and 3 where RIR. I used them in mom's eggs yesterday.
Yesterdays cartons had 5 small BO eggs and 18 RIR eggs.
The Math:
23 small eggs total
1 BO egg from last week
4 BO eggs from this week
3 RIR eggs from last week
15 RIR eggs from this week
Should I be worried?
I have just enough birds to cover my customers orders and every Friday my fridge is cleaned out of all eggs with the exception of the eggs from the 2 gals that just started laying. I start over new every Friday. There were no extra eggs that I am forgetting about.
One day this last week I came in from collecting eggs with 2 small RIR eggs and one RIR egg that was the size of a marble. No kidding! All layers lay in the next boxes so none of these eggs where found on the floor or outside and I collect eggs several times a day so they were not left over from the day before.
There are no other possibilities here...she IS laying more than one egg a day. Should I be worried about this?
She is doing fine and shows no signs of anything other than a healthy bird. She is active and inquisitive, eating, drinking, and pooping normally.
Well last Friday the 7th I was packaging eggs up and noticed that I was 5 eggs shy on my last dozen needed. I called my mother to see if she wouldn't mind some small pullet eggs, she said "great, they are eggs big or small." I used 5 of the nine small eggs that I had, leaving me with 4, one was a BO pullet egg and the others where the RIR's.
I only have the one RIR pullet and the one BO pullet that have just started laying, the rest of my birds in that flock are 1.5 years old. I only collect eggs from this coop and my Welsummer coop. I do not have any other birds of laying age yet in my other 4 coops, so I know eggzactly who and where these eggs are coming from. Only having the one RIR, she is the only one that I get that color egg from.
The BO pullet only gives me 3 eggs a week and she started laying at 4.5 mos.
So... here's my confusion:
Yesterday my mother came over to get her hair cut and permed and asked if I had an extra dozen eggs because she would like to start getting 2 doz. every other week. I went to the fridge and counted my eggs and told her that I did have an extra dozen but they would all be the small pullet eggs.
I took all of the eggs out of the fridge and took out the only the small pullet eggs from every carton. She went home with 23 small pullet eggs and one huge blue egg.
4 where left over from last Friday- 1 was a BO egg and 3 where RIR. I used them in mom's eggs yesterday.
Yesterdays cartons had 5 small BO eggs and 18 RIR eggs.
The Math:
23 small eggs total
1 BO egg from last week
4 BO eggs from this week
3 RIR eggs from last week
15 RIR eggs from this week
I have just enough birds to cover my customers orders and every Friday my fridge is cleaned out of all eggs with the exception of the eggs from the 2 gals that just started laying. I start over new every Friday. There were no extra eggs that I am forgetting about.
One day this last week I came in from collecting eggs with 2 small RIR eggs and one RIR egg that was the size of a marble. No kidding! All layers lay in the next boxes so none of these eggs where found on the floor or outside and I collect eggs several times a day so they were not left over from the day before.
There are no other possibilities here...she IS laying more than one egg a day. Should I be worried about this?
She is doing fine and shows no signs of anything other than a healthy bird. She is active and inquisitive, eating, drinking, and pooping normally.
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