How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Renee572]

1/5 again today. Well we started out August with our first layer. She has done an excellent job. She has laid 23 eggs only taking 8 days off. Way to go Penguin! She laid one while roosting in the beginning and it got broken and eaten and one of her eggs got broke my negligence on our part. We do a co-op with my neighbors so we have split the eggs between us, we decided whoever collects them during their chicken chore time gets them. We had to try the very first egg we got, each of my family members got like 1 bite but it was delicious. We have saved up the other eggs and we are 1 egg short of a dozen!!

Anyway, I was really hoping we'd end the month with at least a second layer but I guess Penguin is going solo for a bit longer. Those other 4 are teasing me. They know I am waiting and doing squat checks and listening for the egg song and they are playing along. I am determined to not pay them as much attention next month and maybe they will think about their teasing and actually give me eggs!! My million trips out to the backyard each day will lessen until I see some eggs!

Pffttt who am I kidding, I'm obsessed with my girls!!

 

[Quickster]

3/? I just don't know who is laying and who isn't. But I got 3. Can't wait for a day of 4, 5, or 6. We just gave 6 away to the guy who mows our lawn, leaving me one peewee egg. I still haven't had a whole egg all to myself. I keep trying to save them and then everyone else eats them. But in the end I do want everyone else to enjoy them. Soon I'll have so many eggs I won't know what to do with them all. Can't wait.

 

[ShinShien]

8 normal-sized eggs, 1 teeny, tiny egg *1/8 an egg, I guess*/15

 

[gander007]

7 Chicken egg's from 9 hens and 1 has chicks

Momma again

The ne fluff balls

Same momma the first week of July .

There are over 25 chicks here and the rest of the eggs that were in her net I put in the incubator to finish out for her ...

 

[karenerwin]

8 eggs today from 12 hens

 

[cash money]

11 eggs from 13 hens

 

[Blooie]

10/11 At what point do I get ho-hum about collecting and counting eggs? I can usually tell who laid which eggs by where the egg was, approximately what time it was, and the color. Not always, but usually. That's because for the first weeks I'd go out there and literally stand guard over the nests. I'd get the poop deck cleaned off, then get comfy as the girls went about their business. When one dropped an egg, I'd use the pencil in my pocket and lightly mark the egg with the initial of the nest location (R-ight nest, L-eft nest, B-ottom nest, N-ew nest, Ba-sket) and the initial of the girl I got it from. Most of the times the girls were still in the "standing to lay" position and the egg was still wet when I picked it up. I don't do that anymore and they rarely change their routines from what I initially noted. But I have a scale and when I bring eggs in I log them by who laid them and the weight, and mark the date laid on the egg in pencil. It's helped tremendously to tell which layers to hang on to and the progression of eggs from peewee (or less) to the 2 monster eggs I've posted here. I'm sure at some point in this fun adventure I'll stop being so obsessive - just not sure when that's going to happen! When my 8 and 9 year old grandkids take care of the chickens while we're out of town, even they know to mark the dates on the eggs, although they don't log them in.

 

[Renee572]

Blooie- I'm a little OCD about it too. I have logged every single egg that we've gotten, I only have 1 layer so it was easy to tell who laid it and she has settled on a nest even though it's not the nest box. I got a scale after about the 3rd egg and I have weighed nearly all of them. I haven't weighed the ones my neighbor has collected. I'm not sure I'll ever stop being obsessive about it but I think it may get crazy when the others start laying. And we have a trip coming up beginning of October and I don't think my neighbor will go to the trouble to tell me who laid what and what they weighed so I may have a week of no information :/

 

[Blooie]

Blooie- I'm a little OCD about it too. I have logged every single egg that we've gotten, I only have 1 layer so it was easy to tell who laid it and she has settled on a nest even though it's not the nest box. I got a scale after about the 3rd egg and I have weighed nearly all of them. I haven't weighed the ones my neighbor has collected. I'm not sure I'll ever stop being obsessive about it but I think it may get crazy when the others start laying. And we have a trip coming up beginning of October and I don't think my neighbor will go to the trouble to tell me who laid what and what they weighed so I may have a week of no information

I just mark "out of town" in the log book for the period we're gone. The kids do a great job taking care of the chickens when we're gone - cleaning the poop deck, gathering the eggs, checking and topping off the feeder and waterer - but asking them to keep up the log is a bit much.

 

[tntchix]

My daughter finally was ready to go through all these eggs. We weighed and cataloged them by layer (which was easy since we only have 2). Lots of conversation about all I've learned about chickens while she was gone.