How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[HappiFeet]

...my cat knocked over a basket of eggs and they all broke, I literally cried as the dog and I cleaned up the mess LOL)

All thirteen hens in the shed insist on using (fighting over) the same nest box, even though there's four boxes, so occasionally we get a cracked egg from the roughousing. These go in a dish for the cats to share, so when I come in with the basket now, they try to trip me so I'll drop one for them. The old cat sits and stares forlornly at the empty dish every evening.

I got 10/14 yesterday and 11/14 the day before.

 

[HappiFeet]

Not that I am advertising at all. But, has anyone else used or seen the smartphone app called Eggspense? I downloaded it this weekend to try out. It allows you to enter # of eggs collected each day and any expenses like feed and shavings. It then creates a graph to show egg production trends. Also shows cost per egg, per dozen, total expenses, and total number of eggs collected to date. I was tracking eggs per day on a small calendar on my coop door. I sell eggs on a small scale and keep some for home use. After putting in all of the numbers I found I was losing money each week at the price per dozen.

I can't find it. Is it an iPhone app?

 

[DaveMorey]

I can't find it. Is it an iPhone app?

It appears that it is only an Android app. I didn't think to see if it worked for iPhone since I am running Android.

 

[elliechooks]

I use a spreadsheet on my iPad that someone on here designed. It's fab.
I have made a few changes in it to show how much I would have paid out if I had bought the eggs that we eat! (and also converted it from dollars to pounds, and pounds to kilos!)

 

[jstlitlome]

I had two days this week that I got 8 of 8! That was the first time that has happened.

Last two days I have only had 4, and I had 2 softies yesterday and one today. It has gotten HOT (like 100 degrees) could that be the cause?

They have layer feed and free choice oyster shell. I added some oyster shell to their feed today and have been feeding them yogurt and cottage cheese for the last several days.

Leslie

 

[karenerwin]

I got 2 eggs today! Yippee!! So, I figure one of the younger pullets has started laying. So the last 2 should be starting soon since the younger 3 are all the same age.
So that makes it 2 eggs from 4 chickens.

 

[blueseal]

16 from 20

10 brown

6 white

 

[MEMama3]

1 teeny egg and she didn't even lay it in the box. She laid it in the middle of the coop floor. So not like her. What's with these chicks lately?!?!

 

[nab58]

6/6 yesterday. Some egghead refuses to lay in the nest. she either leaves it in the run, on top of a bale of hay or on the floor of the coop. Everyone else lays in one of the 3 nest boxes.

 

[KentuckyMom]

6/6 but one was broken by someone 's fat foot! Four of my six chickens like one particular nest box and looks like all of the pushing and shoving broke an egg this time! Phooey!