How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Winderdear]

4 eggs today! Yippee!

Mei was having a tough time laying this morning, so I stuck around to keep an eye on her. When it finally happened, she jumped up on the roost bar, crowed like a rooster, and then dropped an egg right onto the coop floor from a 4ft height. It fell with a thunk, but luckily it didn’t crack. I had been wondering why her eggs were always half buried in shavings and right next to the door. What a goofball!

 

[Smokerbill]

I got another 7 eggs today, for Boxing Day I guess...

 

[Tstraub]

2 today

 

[Jakemedic]

9 today!! Amazingly blessed by their egg production. We have 12 girls, all almost 9 months old. We introduced evening and morning light last month in the hen house. Not sure if that is helping or not. First year chicken keepers here, so it’s all new!

 

[lagrange chicks]

Only 1 today, had to buy some for baking treats for the holidays.

 

[NanaK]

I got 5 from 9 that's been laying today. The older ladies are still on break.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

3 out of 5 today! Also had a bonus of a drowned mouse in a water bucket!

Mine chased a mouse to death...I had found it the day before, inside the coop hallway, loving a bale of straw, and chased her out when I swept the hall & moved the straw bale elsewhere. She really should not have been running around in their pen during the daylight hours...how did she even get into their pen? I chased her out the door, out to my yard. Well, she somehow squeezed into a pen & those mini dinosaurs made short work of her. Barely a mark on her, but there she lay, kinda exhausted "rough around the edges" worn out dead & now ignored by my crazy prehistoric minded flock.

 

[Dough Hill]

9 eggs today. Although I have 18 hens I’m still thankful I get any after years just getting 2 or 3 a day

 

[Sequel]

Mine chased a mouse to death...I had found it the day before, inside the coop hallway, loving a bale of straw, and chased her out when I swept the hall & moved the straw bale elsewhere. She really should not have been running around in their pen during the daylight hours...those mini dinosaurs made short work of her. Barely a mark on her, but there she lay, kinda exhausted "rough around the edges" worn out dead & now ignored by my crazy prehistoric minded flock.

They didn’t eat the mouse? Omg when mine catch one the chase is on until one of them can swallow it!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

They didn’t eat the mouse? Omg when mine catch one the chase is on until one of them can swallow it!

Nope, these were all 5 month old pullets & 2 young Roos & 1 old Roo...I was surprised, too. I thought surely someone would scarf it down. Maybe they just loved the chase, but weren't hungry, or feeling particularly greedy?

In another pen I found a dead rat, too.


Dead but not a mark on it...I flipped it over to see.


Those were mature hens & Roo. I guess rodent is not a desired delicacy on their menu? Their tastebuds Spoiled by live mealworms?


(BTW, I see field mice often, being surrounded by 80 acres of farmland, it happens. This is only the 2nd rat I've actually even seen, since moving here 2005. There are 2 horse barns nearby, I know when there is livestock, there will always be critters & rodents nearby. I just hope the local cats, foxes & owls have a taste for rodent. Seeing a few Mice...yeah, no biggie. Seeing rats...omg No Pleeeez!!!)