How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[pennyJo1960]

8 total no banty today

 

[GardenTillers44]

25 days on the last of the eggs with the last broody, so I guess no peeps. We will regroup and use an incubator next time around and plan this a little better.

Hens are getting back to normal with 12 /15 eggs today. I may take the two 4 yr olds out of the ratio since neither has laid since last summer. Even the roos are leaving them alone.

 

[PouleChick]

Back then we didn't have much for cheese either other than cheddar and American. We have it much better on both fronts now.

I don't remember much exciting cheese in rural Australia growing up either! What is 'American' cheese?

Yeah, It's weird how much our tastes are depending on where we grow up. As someone who grew up in Louisiana, most other states food is bland.

It is a bit better now but when I first lived here in the 90s you couldn't get anything spicy - it was just not something that was in the French diet at all and if I served even a mild curry or something it blew thier heads off! Australia has such a strong south east asian influence that I was well used to chilli in things as was DH with the curries in the UK!

You are doing something wrong, they are laying too much

I better sell her '1 bearded cuckoo silkie for sale - too many eggs for breed so she has to go - €20'

I havent' checked this morning - the toddler was up far too early so I just managed to open their pop door (remind me to sent some links to an auto door build for DH )!

 

[April Barta]

Had DH go PT to lockup the coop and on his final egg check there were 2 shell-less eggs in a nest box. This is our 2nd night in a row after 5pm. Probably our 4th time in a week. Do you think I have a problem with one of the pullets or just the girls figuring out their system? All are about 23.5 weeks and most are laying. None of my bantams are laying and my SLW hasn’t. I’m pretty sure everyone else has but not consistently based on egg colors I get daily.

 

[PouleChick]

Do you think I have a problem with one of the pullets or just the girls figuring out their system?

So hard to know isn't it. I thought mine were all sorted now 2-3 weeks into laying but I got a funny shaped one again this morning. Hopefully it isn't a problem with one of your girls and she'll be OK

 

[LaurEliz]

Eight, with eleven hens.

 

[Spartan22]

So hard to know isn't it. I thought mine were all sorted now 2-3 weeks into laying but I got a funny shaped one again this morning. Hopefully it isn't a problem with one of your girls and she'll be OK

Talking about funny shape eggs, my lone California White were laying normal eggshape and size since September, I even hatched 2 of her eggs In the last week or so she’s laying almost perfect round eggs and rougher eggshells. My three year old, 2 RIRs in the main coop are back to laying torpedo shape eggs.

 

[igorsMistress]

I don't remember much exciting cheese in rural Australia growing up either! What is 'American' cheese?
It is a bit better now but when I first lived here in the 90s you couldn't get anything spicy - it was just not something that was in the French diet at all and if I served even a mild curry or something it blew thier heads off! Australia has such a strong south east asian influence that I was well used to chilli in things as was DH with the curries in the UK!

I better sell her '1 bearded cuckoo silkie for sale - too many eggs for breed so she has to go - €20'

I havent' checked this morning - the toddler was up far too early so I just managed to open their pop door (remind me to sent some links to an auto door build for DH )!

American cheese is not real cheese and it doesn't taste good. Save yourself and don't even think about it. Trust me.

 

[bruceha2000]

What is 'American' cheese?

What @igorsMistress said

Though apparently it comes in 2 types. The 'slices' in plastic are actually formed by the melted cheese food product "stuff" being poured into a mold, cooled and wrapped in an automated assembly line affair. I gather that is a bit different than the "American cheese" that comes in blocks and is sliced at the deli. I think AC's only 2 'virtues' are ease of use for the prepackaged 'slices' and the fact that it melts very easily.

We will ignore the concept of taste or texture. Sort of like Velveeta. We used that to fish with when I was a kid, you can form small sticky balls that will stay on the hook. Looks sort of like orange salmon roe. I don't recall if we ever ate it ourselves.

Now we get all sorts of cheeses including quite a number of small batch local (State of Vermont) cheese makers - cow, goat and sheep milk.

 

[pennyJo1960]

velveeta works to get pills down the dogs only use for it