How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Winderdear]

5 today, from Août, Juillet, Marzo, Ebrel and Helmikuu

 

[akroberts1085]

Got 5

 

[BigBlueHen53]

12 again. I need to find out who's not laying and ... well, you know.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I just wanted to let everyone know that I don't know how to introduce the girls to Mister. Bernadebt is really good but yesterday when I put her in the nest box she attacked him to the point that he was hiding under the front of the coop.

I wrote an article on integration and there's another good one I can recommend.

Integrating:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/integrating-a-pictorial-guide.79343/


This is another excellent article on integrating flocks:


https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/integrating-chickens-step-by-step.72815/

 

[Bockbockbaboq]

We got 13 today from 15 Easter Egger hens.

 

[Nomadicus]

12 again. I need to find out who's not laying and ... well, you know.

How do you know it is the same hen always not laying.... Our girls take turns taking a vacation day off work.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How do you know it is the same hen always not laying.... Our girls take turns taking a vacation day off work.

You can check their bottoms. A laying hen's vent will be soft and moist. A non-layer's will look dry and tight. I have some hens that are over 3 years old. They're the ones I would check first.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[Nomadicus]

You can check their bottoms. A laying hen's vent will be soft and moist. A non-layer's will look dry and tight. I have some hens that are over 3 years old. They're the ones I would check first.

I have a coop with 2 pullets laying white eggs, 1 that lays green eggs, and one that lays a brown egg. Some days I get 1 white, a green and a brown. Some days 2 whites, and a green, etc. Some days 2 eggs, some days 3 eggs, and some days 4 eggs so regardless of how there hiny checks out they all are laying some of the time. Maybe some more than the others. I'm not tracking it because they seem to be laying about the same.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm getting, on average, six brown and six blue or blue-ish eggs. I have no idea who lays what among the bluey eggs. I have a blue copper marans who occasionally lays a chocolate egg, but she's the only one I can track for sure. The rest are going to have to suffer the indignity of having their skirts lifted.