How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[gummybear24]

Just one out if three today, but it's after 10 pm and they are still up! Quirky girls I tell ya

 

[flockanuts]

Got 11/12 yesterday with ice on the ground! Got 6/12 today with 5" of snow on top of the ice. I have 1 egg that may be frozen. It's not cracked but it was awful cold. Is it good and ok to eat?

 

[DuginMT]

It's fine to eat - even if frozen and cracked. The egg has an inner membrane. My rule is, if the inner membrane is not broken, and the egg is not leaking, then the integrity of the egg is OK. I just put in in the fridge overnight to thaw and eat them the next morning, or within a couple of days. I had one completely froze at -10F and cracked lengthwise. Thawed it out and fried it the next morning, and could not tell it had been frozen. The frozen eggs never make it to the "giveaway cartons" though.

 

[DuginMT]

We have only been getting 4 -7 eggs a day lately out of our 12 pullets. I blame it on the weather - minus 30F some nights and barely reaching zero in the daytime. The coop has been staying 10 or 15 degrees warmer, and the girls have not been venturing out. Still laying enough for our eggs with breakfast, though! The rooster, "King" has had the tips of his once-fabulous crown frost nipped. He still crows in the coop a couple times per day though - quite a trooper!

 

[Math]

Here are a few pics from this past summer. I do keep a light on from 4am til 9am

Pretty birds. And very productive too.

 

[Math]

23/26 yesterday.

 

[MEMama3]

I'm down to 4 productive birds out of 7 (3 haven't laid in a month) so I'm only getting 2 or 3 eggs a day. My problem is that one of the productive birds is my sure fire broody. You leave a pile of golf balls in there for a day and she WILL go broody. I'm on the fence because I want to start my hatching for the spring flock, but I hate to lose an egg producing bird.

 

[Math]

23/26 today.

 

[Math]

Got 11/12 yesterday with ice on the ground!  Got 6/12 today with 5" of snow on top of the ice.  I have 1 egg that may be frozen.  It's not cracked but it was awful cold.  Is it good and ok to eat?

Your hens are doing very good.

 

[Red Feather]

9 of 11 today! all the snow is about gone time to let them run again.

i could sit and watch them for hours.