How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[SkyAJK]

Have you tried cooked eggs? Or were they getting cooked already?

Poor pookies!

I gave my dogs boiled egg. Too much of the good thing is also bad for them. I don't know how else to explain it.

 

[EMS83]

4 today! It’s going in the right direction!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

10 today. Six brown, 4 blue.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[pecky33]

0 eggs for several months now from my 9 hens.
6 of them are 4 years old and it’s winter so that kinda makes sense. 1 is 5 years old and she’s a bantam.
The other 2 are young little 2 year olds and I’m disappointed in them!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I feel it’s late in the year for moulting. I haven’t had a new moulter this weekend so hopefully they have all ended their moulting. It’s turning cold again so they need their feathers!

It is late. They're 9 and 10 months old so it's their first winter. We don't lose much daylight here, summer is 14.5 hours and winter is 10.5 hours.

Temps were in the triple digits all the way through October. That messed up everyone, frankly. I've never hated an October in my life - it's my favorite month - but I hated that one. I wouldn't be surprised if the crazy long hellish temps affected the hens. Nights now are in the 40s so they should be okay.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It is late. They're 9 and 10 months old so it's their first winter. We don't lose much daylight here, summer is 14.5 hours and winter is 10.5 hours.

Temps were in the triple digits all the way through October. That messed up everyone, frankly. I've never hated an October in my life - it's my favorite month - but I hated that one. I wouldn't be surprised if the crazy long hellish temps affected the hens. Nights now are in the 40s so they should be okay.

Are you as far south as Tucson? That must be awful hard on chickens in the summer. My brother used to live there and I spent a summer with him once. I can't imagine trying to keep chickens there, must be challenging.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Are you as far south as Tucson? That must be awful hard on chickens in the summer. My brother used to live there and I spent a summer with him once. I can't imagine trying to keep chickens there, must be challenging.

We're outside of Tucson. Summer isn't just summer; it's six months long here, from approximately April into October. We're not really safe again until November.

We call those the Hell Months for good reason. The heat is relentless and the nights don't cool off much. It's hot all the time. You have to watch your flock very carefully. We use cameras since I can't stand to be outdoors for long when it's hot. Run out - do coop chores - run back inside.

We use shade, fans, misters, ice blocks, and frozen treats for the hens. It's not unusual to have an air conditioner in your coop; we don't but I'm thinking about it.

Some breeds do better in the heat than others. I try to buy chicks from local lines that have been in our desert for several generations. Minorcas and black Australorps seem to do adapt pretty well to the kind of heat we have, for example.

Sometimes chickens die in the summer and there's not much you can do. We keep six recovery cages ready inside the house so we can bring indoors any hens who look like they're struggling. We had to do that a few times last summer but everyone made it through.

We even had a tornado this year. That was a first for me. It vaporized our coop and run and everything else that was in the yard including our fence, our huge 70-year-old tree that shaded much of the east side of the house, and parts of our roof, BUT we saved the flock, every one of them. 2024 was a particularly terrible summer. I start feeling anxious just thinking about 2025.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

Don’t know what I did, but my question to you eating all of those eggs was referencing the 1734. I’m still wondering what we’ll ultimately be doing with our anticipated 600 a year. I suppose free eggs for friends and family will be on tap.

Saw a cool egg vending machine not sure if it was in the US. Would scan a card for funds and unlock a door that had 2 doz tray. Besides donating to our local food bank. If I had an over abundance of eggs I would like to try the glass egg storage, or the hard boil pickle egg storage methods.

 

[SkyAJK]

0 eggs for several months now from my 9 hens.
6 of them are 4 years old and it’s winter so that kinda makes sense. 1 is 5 years old and she’s a bantam.
The other 2 are young little 2 year olds and I’m disappointed in them!

I hope you have a good chat with your girls there, how much mommy disappointed in them for not pooping breakfast.
4, 5 years old and winter also, might be that the reason. The 2 years old, might be just winter ?
I have a freeloader in my flock , and she is very demanding.
I am looking forward to see my girls live to that good age, the oldest girl I have is 3.5 years old.