How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[karenerwin]

9 today.

 

[rlm79]

I am going to have to up the protein.  Out of 50+ hens, we got Zero eggs yesterday!  Everyone who buys eggs from me is waiting on the girls to pop out a dozen.  I am waiting for them to pop out a dozen.  I had to BUY eggs at the grocery yesterday:/ .  I am feeding all these chickens, and they are not feeding me.  Last year it slowed down significantly.  We put a light in the coop & boarded up the coop to make it warmer, but it didn't seem to help much.  So, we let them go thru the molt, and the winter & in the spring, we were getting so many eggs that we donated a great deal to the food pantry.  But it's just started winter here & I don't want to wait 6 more months for eggs!

Chickens are born with a certain number of eggs they can lay. I didn't like the light idea for my girls so I just upped there protein with meal worms but that can get expensive so what I have started is breeding my own mealworms. Its easy and you don't need to do a lot for them. Just a piece of potatoes for their moistureand that's about it. This has help me get more eggs than I was getting but not like in the summer where every hen was laying a egg everyday but out of 5 hens I get 3 a day and in the summer I get 5 of 5.

 

[karenerwin]

11 today.

 

[meskybar]

0 out of 3

 

[draye]

6 out of 21

 

[Orpie]

We did well today. Have 8 layers and got 7 eggs today!!!!
Loving listening to them just a clucking away!!!

 

[Blooie]

5/9 and Scout is thriving....he's so doggone cute I can't stand it!!

 

[WVDoug]

9/14

 

[Wishapup]

12 eggs today out of a total of 25 pullets/hens. This is doing well considering many of them have only just started laying and I am waiting for many more! At least 7 pullets are not laying yet for sure because they will lay recognizable egg colours that I haven't observed yet.

This number is also not including the 10 older hens (most around 4 years old) who seem to spend most of their time molting, instead of laying.

 

[MickeysChicks]

Yesterday 14eggs /13 chickens...yep you read that right....8white eggs out of 6 leghorns, 6 brown out of 7 rsl's
Today 12 eggs out of 13 chickens...7 white eggs out of 6 leghorns, 5 brown out of 7 rsl's

The first day I thought ,o.k maybe I missed some from the day before, but today I KNOW I did not miss any yesterday! I guess I have reeaaalll happy leghorns!