How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Carpenter Coop]

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[tntchix]

You know, everyone talks about "white as snow" but I don't think there are prettier blues in the world than the blues associated with a snowy landscape. I love them all, from the pewter of a winter sky when the sun is trying to shine to the intense blue of a stream flowing under and around snow covered boulders.

nothing better than nature's rainbow

 

[Marcy54]

I got four today, it was a wet, gray blustery day.

 

[WVDoug]

8/15.
My rate is around 50% with 9 month old hens and supplemental lighting (on at 2:30AM, off at 8AM).
...BUT...
They are all heritage breeds, (Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, and Cuckoo Marans) not production layers like Comets, Red Stars, Black Stars.....
I think that makes a big difference.

 

[minnehaha]

8/15.
My rate is around 50% with 9 month old hens and supplemental lighting (on at 2:30AM, off at 8AM).
...BUT...
They are all heritage breeds, (Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, and Cuckoo Marans) not production layers like Comets, Red Stars, Black Stars.....
I think that makes a big difference.

Great point!!! I guess I have mostly heritage breeds too, except for these production breeds~ 5 white leghorns and 6 red stars. Thank you for bringing up that point! I guess mine are just taking their winter break.

Today I only got 12 eggs (44% rate). The production birds laid eggs plus one Cream Legbar laid a blue egg.

12/27/30 (44%)
5 white, 6 brown, one blue egg

I'll bet a light would help a great deal.. If it were not for production breeds my egg rate percentage would be 6% (calculated without the production breeds (1 egg from 16 heritage breed hens)

 

[minnehaha]

15/24 today, girls weren't quite so happy when I let them out this morning. Here is what awaited them, they all put the breaks on at the pop door, had a 26 bird pile up lol.

I can totally picture the looks on your girls faces and the pile up that ensued!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!!!

I don't know, probably about the same. Mine are wyandottes, new layers, I don't use any light in the coop. They lay 4 eggs most days five now and then.

I have 3 Wyandottes, I know they lay, but not as often or as much as the red stars. Your Wyandottes are doing great for winter and no light!!

 

[BubbaLikesIt]

11 eggs today. We have 14 pullet's that lay really well. We have sun most days and the chickens roam wherever they choose. We have lighting in the Run of the coop but they are not locked in under the supplied light. Our average is 11 eggs and we have 12 & 13 egg days also, even when it is cold outside.

Here's the deal. Temperature, light and food as we all know has an effect on egg production. I can't tell you how many times I have heard how not to keep your coop warm in the winter because chickens are tough. Thats right, chickens are tough and can generate heat and fluff their feathers to trap insulating air. But don't expect many eggs. It takes a lot of energy for a chicken to stay warm and that will cut in to egg production.

We have a non-insulated coop but built tight enough to keep warmth in. We use two 150 watt ceramic heat emitters that screw into a normal light fixture. When it's 14 degrees outside it's 48 degrees in the coop with 14 chickens. When it gets overcast with clouds, the chickens will kinda rotate in under the light for a spell and then go back out to do their foraging and what not. We will see a decrease in egg size before a decrease in quantity if temperature is a factor.

Food is important. Our chickens, all together eat one bunch of mustard, kale or collard greens, all the food scraps from the kitchen, a thin spread of milo and cracked corn and chicken feed. In the warmer months add a melon with that. This is everyday diet for our birds along with oyster shell and granite always available where they scratch and in feeders inside the coop. I will till one strip about every other day with my tiller. 25' long and as wide as the tiller. They scratch for grubs and worms, it's kinda a social event for them.

I don't claim to no everything about chickens but I do know if you want fresh eggs as we do, you got to participate a little.

 

[RobJones]

6/16

 

[Heather7]

Yesterday I got a total of 15. But that includes some from the day before, I think. I caught a new layer in the box..... so cute. And for those that asked..... my big birth a egg weighed in at 92 grams.

 

[ochochicas]

Eight eggs yesterday from 16 hens. Five are molting and the other three just had the day off.