How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[bruceha2000]

Hope you have a great visit and build!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Enjoy the time always had fun building and still do

 

[karenerwin]

We made it back this evening around 8:30. We got about halfway finished with the coop/run combo. W.e had a 4 year old and an 8 year old helping and an 18 month old supervising. We did get lucky with the weather. The only rain we had was while we were driving!
My friend said she got 12 eggs last night + another 7 today when she let them back out. I got another 12 when I got home and locked them back up.
The barred rock that went broody but is the bad Momma, is still trying to go broody again. I keep taking the eggs but she is sitting tight on an empty nest.
I guess I will need to figure out a broody buster to put her in.

We will go back down to my sons early in July after Summer School is over ( June 28). Then as my hubby said, we can go down during the week because neither of us will have to work!!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have 6 in the main out of 12 silky is 3 of 4

 

[karenerwin]

13 eggs today

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have 8 in the main coop and 2 in silky

 

[legojenn]

It's funny. I got three eggs yesterday and was disappointed. I was getting four eggs a day from four pullets three days in a row. They're only 20 weeks old, albeit sex-links designed for production. They're still babies though. I would rather they slow down and produce eggs more slowly over a longer time. Anyhow, I can't control nature, just the breed of chicken who lives in the coop as replacements are needed.

For now, I'll enjoy their quick production. My neighbours are fascinated by the birds and they've had a few visits. The birds have generated a few smiles. I want to buy more good will early by giving away a dozen eggs to my three closest neighbours because I know there is the potential for smell or noise.

 

[bruceha2000]

I would rather they slow down and produce eggs more slowly over a longer time.

Whether true or not, my understanding is that sex links tend to run hard and burn out fast which is why I don't have any. I don't add winter light for the same reason. As long as they are healthy they get to live producing or not and I figure if they aren't pushed to produce 12 months a year they will produce more years.

We will go back down to my sons early in July after Summer School is over ( June 28).

Summer school sure is short! Seems like it was at least a couple of months back when I was a kid.

I guess I will need to figure out a broody buster to put her in.

Yep. Either that or watch her hog a nest for the next month or two or three.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have 6 that lay in the winter always have but then take molting off in fall for like 3 months I cut them allot of slack

 

[karenerwin]

Whether true or not, my understanding is that sex links tend to run hard and burn out fast which is why I don't have any. I don't add winter light for the same reason. As long as they are healthy they get to live producing or not and I figure if they aren't pushed to produce 12 months a year they will produce more years.


Summer school sure is short! Seems like it was at least a couple of months back when I was a kid.

I never went or knew anyone that went when I was a kid ( if they even had it!). Our Summer school is May 30 - June 28 this year (22 days). It is usually 24 days long but all the snow days extended our school year so much that they had to push Summer school back 2 days otherwise it would have started on the same day that teachers had to work for the last day of the school year ( without kids, pack up rooms and turn in grades).

Yep. Either that or watch her hog a nest for the next month or two or three.

I'm more worried about her starving herself to death or at least to the point that she gets sick!

14 eggs today.Butchered 1 more meat chicken today. 4 more to go, then starting on extra roosters.