How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[BigBlueHen53]

I got 3 eggs and I have 5 hens.... I'm not really sure if that's slow or just normal for 2 yo heritage breed hens

What kind of chicken is that in your avatar? I'm noticing the white earlobes, does she lay a white egg?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I got 3 eggs and I have 5 hens.... I'm not really sure if that's slow or just normal for 2 yo heritage breed hens

Where are you on this blue planet? If in the northern hemisphere, are they just coming back into lay after having been on winter break? If so I'd say that's about normal for this time of year and you should start getting a few more eggs as the days get longer. Unless you have high-production hybrids I'd say you probably can't expect to get an egg a day from every hen. Three to four eggs a day out of 5 hens is pretty good production for their second year.

 

[SkyAJK]

Yes it sure is. I sure hope your hen gets better. It’s always hard having sick animals. I had two this past winter pass away, of course one old hen was 10 so she was very elderly.

Right now I have my young cockerel who seems to have microplasmosis - I have Tylosin for him, but finding it hard find info to treat a single animal - I don’t need to mix up 50 gallons of it!!!

I hear you Ponypoor. Hard work treating chicken ill health.

That word is big and complicated - microplasmosis, good thing that you know what is wrong with your young cockerel. I hope he is better soon.

My sick hen Minty wanted to eat dirt, yesterday I decided might be she knows something that I don't, so I let her free to eat dirty and dirty she went for. We had so much rain before so it was ....so terrible seeing her eating it.....This morning she is looking radiant, crop is much improved, no longer has that terrible smell. She is free to eat more dirt again. She poops a bit more solid so that is seeing improvement, blockage is easing.

I was giving up as what more can I do? Thank goodness she does know what she needs.

 

[SkyAJK]

3 eggs today.

There might be just 2 as the weather gets cool, cold and shorter day. We are in autumn now.
Edit to correct that there might be just 2 soon as the weather changes

 

[pennyJo1960]

7 from my girls sometimes dry oatmeal will firm loose stool.
yes at times they eat dirt.

 

[500Chickens]

Out of 500 chickens?
(Jk! Lol)

No, I only have 3

 

[ChookaPete]

Great names!

Thank you! I liked the idea of naming them after spices, and somehow used the letter C for all of them.
Chamomile though really had a chamomile-coloured coat when she was a chick, sort of a whitish-yellow. She's more white now, though on some days her coat does seem to have a pale yellow hue to it.

However her name is the complete opposite of her temperament!
But she is a dear and I love her all the same. She does seem more content and confident by the day.


I recently acquired three very young lovely Light Sussex chickens. I don't want to name them yet until I am absolutely sure. But if they are indeed female, I will be calling them Martha, Maisie, and Marjoram.
If one or all turn out male, I'll think of some male M-names.


Now I want to get a black chook! Ideally a black or dark blue Australian Langshan, even a rooster so I can have different coloured chicks from the Hy-Line hens.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[akroberts1085]

Got all 6 yesterday

 

[Knobby]

8 chicken, 4 duck eggs this morning. Should get a few more at lock up