How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[karenerwin]

18 eggs today! Yippee!!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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My 5 original chickens are 21 months. The rest were hatches from June to October of last year, and January-February this year.
I didn't think 3 month old chickens would molt. The original 5 and June to October chickens molted last fall. I'm confused too.

Is anyone else's chickens molting?

My chickens do everything they're not supposed to do...

They started laying during molting last fall and so far no change with this molting.
6 hens are off duty because they're setting or just hatched baby chicks.
I can't imagine the January pullets would start laying until next month.

I got 16 chicken eggs today.

(I'm missing 2 OEGB eggs and 1 EE egg I think.)


And I'm still looking for the guinea egg.
I let them out early because we were going away, and.....

 

[MeeMa Brown]

7/9 Saturday
4/9 Sunday. ...happy mother day

 

[cabinchicky]

3 month old molt is normal, just wait till the 18 month one hits. Wow! Feather mattress explosion

 

[Wickedchicken6]

3 month old molt is normal, just wait till the 18 month one hits. Wow! Feather mattress explosion

Ok, that's good to know about the 3 month old molt....lol. I must admit I don't know much about molting and will have to educate myself.

Hmmmm...feather mattress explosion at 18 months. So your saying I have lots to look forward to...that or I should be in the feather mattress business??

100 chickens molting.

I never saw this side of things with all the meat chickens we had...

(still looking for yesterday's guinea egg)

 

[cabinchicky]

Ok, that's good to know about the 3 month old molt....lol. I must admit I don't know much about molting and will have to educate myself.:cd

Hmmmm...feather mattress explosion at 18 months. So your saying I have lots to look forward to...that or I should be in the feather mattress business??

100 chickens molting.  
I never saw this side of things with all the meat chickens we had...

(still looking for yesterday's guinea egg)

Meat birds are usually in the freezer by 18 months for most people from what I understand. I have Cochins, Brahma, EES and Speckled Sussex that molted last fall. It looked like a feather mattress explosion once the Cochin and Brahmas started, white and bluefeathers everywhere. None of them were bare thankfully, hate to think of the kids naked. Ewww!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well all 5 back in action now time to mess them up again brought
6 new easter eggers from one of our cohorts here will try
to post photos later on.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: When we had meat birds they were bought as day olds around the end of March and they were processed and in the freezer before harvest (mid August) They never had a chance to molt...lol. This was like, 20 years ago though.

Well all 5 back in action now time to mess them up again brought
6 new easter eggers from one of our cohorts here will try
to post photos later on.

Best of luck with everything. I LOVE my EE's SO much.

I just can't believe how hardy and docile they are.


Slow day so far...only 5 chicken eggs. (They wore themselves out yesterday)

1 guinea egg (today she had to lay before I let her out)

 

[pennyJo1960]

@ wickedchiken6

Thank you There are 3 with bard look, 1 more like bluish black and the other two are I think like splash
all very neat kinda grey

 

[karenerwin]

14 eggs today