How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[fuzzi]

Two eggs, when coupled with the four from yesterday means MY OLDER HENS ARE LAYING!

It's just been the three pullets laying these last few months.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Two eggs, when coupled with the four from yesterday means MY OLDER HENS ARE LAYING!

It's just been the three pullets laying these last few months.

How many olders do you have?

 

[Chicken_overlord]

I saw the photo, so beautiful breed and horrible name Deathlayers. I hope they are a hardy chicken and do not have reproductive issue.

Isa Brown should be named Deathlayers because they lay egg every day until they die from laying egg, but their life span is around 2 years in real life. They will start having reproductive issue around 1.5 years of age.

Apparently, their name was likely originally "day layer" in old German and slowly was changed into the name "deathlayer" over time. They lay about 200-250 beautiful white eggs a year. They're pretty fragile as chicks and juveniles (they don't handle illness well at that stage) but grow to be very hardy if you get them past the growing stage. Despite the myth behind their name, they don't lay to their death. They slow down like other chicken breeds as they age and they can live to be 10 years old, so they're pretty long lived. I've loved mine, she's a bit flighty, but is a sweetheart.

 

[Tookie]

33 total of eggs in the last 9 days. 8 chicken eggs and 25 duck eggs.

 

[Paz]

Hard to pronounce if you are not Dutch. It has the hard g-ch like in Scheveningen, a slight grunge. And the ij-ei that is not in your vocabulary either. Ei means egg btw.
The aa is long . As if you open your throat and say aaa for inspection by a doctor.
S-grunge-ndul-aaa-r
Listen to the pronunciation in video below.

Schijndelaar is a village in the Netherlands where this new breed was established. They are beautiful , light-green laying hens , originally white long tailed chickens.
Small crest. Pheasant like build.

If you like to to translate (google or AI) there are plenty Dutch articles online:

https://schijndelaar.jouwweb.nl/
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schijndelaar
https://schijndelaar.webnode.nl/

They created other colours in the region/city of Meierij where Schijndel belongs to .
A video in Dutch about the new black ‘Schijndelaar’, called Meierij chicken , which is completely black.

Yes, you see, my thought process was: if I read Dutch, I can understand it, because it is very similar to German, so I might as well pronounce it like I would. I should have known this was the wrong system to implement here, since the minute someone talks to me in Dutch, I can no longer understand a single word, so it must be pronounced completely differently…

 

[Paz]

Yes it is. I have had a good amount of ouch eggs. At 70 grams a chicken egg is said to be a jumbo egg so anything after that is definitely an ouch egg although at 70 grams it's a safe bet to say it's an ouch egg.

Really? It’s considered large where I live (65-73).
Edit: I understand in the USA you have what is called “jumbo”, we don’t.

 

[BDutch]

Isa Brown should be named Deathlayers because they lay egg every day until they die from laying egg, but their life span is around 2 years in real life. They will start having reproductive issue around 1.5 years of age.

Are you confused with what happens in factory farming?

True Isa Brown have a short lifespan. They live about 20 months in factory farming not bc of reproductive issues but they do stop laying around that time. Simply because they have their first serious moult around that time.

Costing more than expected profits in the future makes the farmers to sell all Isa Brown (or other high productive factory farming hybrids) to slaughterhouses.

People who buy Isa Brown as backyard chickens keep them longer most of the time. They are still good producers of eggs after the moult period. Isa Browns often get sick with an ovarian disease after 3-6 years and have a short lifespan for a chicken. But an average of only 2 years is only true if you count the abused and killed chickens too.

Many less productive breeds have a natural lifespan of about 10 years. Old breeds with a large gene pool and backyard mixes often lay up to the age of 8-10 and live several years more if they don’t disappear into a chicken soup or a stew. Or are eaten by predators.

 

[thistlewick]

11 yesterday

Today is day 7 of Tilly's broodiness, so I had to candle the eggs. Checked the camera this morning and she was off eating and doing her thing so I RAN out there

HOLY SMOKES there was 9 eggs on her nest.

I GAVE HER 3 and I HAD NOT BEEN CHECKING. Every SINGLE time I looked at her, on the camera, or going out to check (which is very often as I am retired and at home all day) she was sitting on that nest.

So, I was absolutely kerfluffled and not to say the least a little stressed. The pencil marks I made on the 3 eggs I gave her a week ago were worn off from her turning/sitting. Luckily I remember which ones I gave her.


So, only ONE has a wiggly eye spot and not even sure there are veins but yeah I let her keep that one, and 1 more was a "maybe" so I marked both with more pencil and put those back under her and took the rest of them away and just chucked em. 2 eggs had that 'red line' of a quitter but hadn't quite gotten fully red-line yet -- but there were no veins and half the egg was dark, it was weird. Didn't look like it *should*. So just to be sure I chucked em in the other pasture for snakes and other animals to get (its about 2 acres and a fence away)

Now I'm thinking I moved them around too fast and probably messed everything up.

I will be checking her nest every day now, THOSE SNEAKY CHICKENS!!!

 

[akroberts1085]

Got 2 so far but the nest box they like was locked because I didn't want the puppy going in there so I will check again in a couple hours

 

[SkyAJK]

Are you confused with what happens in factory farming?

True Isa Brown have a short lifespan. They live about 20 months in factory farming not bc of reproductive issues but they do stop laying around that time. Simply because they have their first serious moult around that time.

Costing more than expected profits in the future makes the farmers to sell all Isa Brown (or other high productive factory farming hybrids) to slaughterhouses.

People who buy Isa Brown as backyard chickens keep them longer most of the time. They are still good producers of eggs after the moult period. Isa Browns often get sick with an ovarian disease after 3-6 years and have a short lifespan for a chicken. But an average of only 2 years is only true if you count the abused and killed chickens too.

Many less productive breeds have a natural lifespan of about 10 years. Old breeds with a large gene pool and backyard mixes often lay up to the age of 8-10 and live several years more if they don’t disappear into a chicken soup or a stew. Or are eaten by predators.

If you are so good and concern about chickens why aren't you going out there protesting the right of the Isa Brown?

Do you eat chickens?

Where do you think the chickens and eggs from the shop from? Protest on that!

Let me tell you what I know about Isa Brown.
I did not know anything about chickens before I adopted my first 6 Isa Brown give away from the nursing home Easter hatching display.

I got them at a week old and love them. They all started to get sick around 1.5 - 2 years of age, and took turn died of reproductive issues.

I took a few to the Avian Vet, it was very costly and they told me must take ultrasound and in the end kinder to put them down. I went in with a sick chicken, walked out with a big hole in my purse and a dead chicken.

My Isa brown chickens have NEVER stop laying egg, never molt, never broody.

The ONLY broody and molt Isa Brown is the one wearing an implant.

That was my experience with Isa Brown.

My current Isa Brown: 1 from a nursing home display & 1 from a rescue farm.

I am taking 1 to get her 3rd implant to stop her egg laying.

I have no influence on what the chicken farmers are doing, there are a great wrong is done to these chickens, I can only do my part to love, care for them and give them a good life in my backyard.

You are feeling easy and comfortable to judge me.
You are feeling good & righteous to judge me.
It is harder to spend years protesting the right of chickens
It is harder to NOT buy any chickens produce in the shop.