How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[twinzmom]

9 eggs today and we got our 6 new red sex links too! They are 18 weeks old now

 

[lahowardjr]

Seven from fourteen. Picking up slightly.

 

[Gargoyle]

Four for four, but a bit strange. Tessa dropped hers on the poop board under the perch, and it had a really thin shell- shattered when I picked it up. Then, mid morning, she went in the nest and sat there for an hour and a half. Almost like she didn't realize she'd laid one already.

Could the thin shell be that she plopped it out too early before it was fully formed?

 

[tlpounds]

5 eggs from 7 chickens today. We got 30 this week from our Silkies. Such good and happy girls.

 

[SarahJaneB]

10 from 10 hens Love my girls!

 

[karlamaria]

Four for four, but a bit strange. Tessa dropped hers on the poop board under the perch, and it had a really thin shell- shattered when I picked it up. Then, mid morning, she went in the nest and sat there for an hour and a half. Almost like she didn't realize she'd laid one already.

Could the thin shell be that she plopped it out too early before it was fully formed?

same thing happened here, soft shell egg on the poop board under the roost. Weird morning lol
Did get 6 plus one soft from 8 girls

 

[bruceha2000]

Well, today, Austra laid her second egg.
SO were 3 eggs today.

Don't know why, and I hope it changes, but her eggs are elongated.

Congrats!

From my experience, you can USUALLY tell which girl laid which egg if they are different enough because there are distinguishing features. One of my Anconas lays an egg that is noticably more pointed on the small end than the other Ancona. But any given girl can have an "off pattern" day. Sometimes the "pointy" layer lays one that ISN'T pointy and I can only tell it was hers because the other laid the same day. The whoppers are always double yolk and elongated (good thing too, it still has to take the same path as the "normal" eggs). And, the color of a girl's egg can change over time, meaning within a laying period, they get lighter in color until they take a break from laying to refill the "tint cartridge"

. More oddly, one of my Partridge Chanteclers started with shiny tan eggs but now lays matte light pinkish brown.

So don't sweat the size and shape changes, it is normal. For instance, these are the weights from the eggs Echo (my smaller BA) has laid since her last break - the average size for all 68 eggs she has laid is just over 55 grams:
58, 64, 62, 62, 58, 56. So you might think, wow, that 64 is way up there for her, maybe it came from Zorra (the other BA, whose average egg size is 65).
Well it wasn't, for 2 reasons. First it was darker than Zorra has ever laid but the same color as Echo's eggs. Second, it was the day Zorra laid the whopper 90 gram egg.

Four for four, but a bit strange. Tessa dropped hers on the poop board under the perch, and it had a really thin shell- shattered when I picked it up. Then, mid morning, she went in the nest and sat there for an hour and a half. Almost like she didn't realize she'd laid one already.

Could the thin shell be that she plopped it out too early before it was fully formed?

Yes, it happens. I've had 2 eggs with no shell, just the membrane (one dropped before my very eyes from the roost), and one that had a really thin shell. But they weren't close together in time. I don't know which girl(s) laid the other two. So 3 with no or thin shell and 626 perfectly fine eggs. I'm not complaining

8 eggs today

Bruce

 

[cooped up]

21/24 for the past three days! I love my black australorps!

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

67 eggs from 100 hens. SLACKERS!

 

[peacock 05]

So for 25 hens what's the usual?????