How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[twinzmom]

Thanks for that suggestion, Greyfox farm. I'll definitely keep the speckled Sussex in mind.

Yesterday we had a really off day with only 3 eggs, my husband started telling them about the soup pot. They must have understood because we got 6 today! Still a little low but, hey, everyone needs a day off once in a while!

 

[nakstk]

So far I am 1/8 again but some of them lay late in the day.


@Twinzmom I absolutely love my Speckled Sussex. Most of mine are very friendly, one is a total B!t**. I need to put her in her place. But other then that they are all great birds and I highly recommend them. They are medium egg layers so 1.6 to 1.9 ounce eggs for the most part, I have had a few that were 2.0 to 2.2 ounces. I have 5 SS and they laid enough for our family of 4 with a few extras to share.

 

[chickenwalker]

12/01 - 5 from 9
12/02 - 3 from 9
12/03 - 6 from 9
12/04 - 6 from 9

All 9 hens were born mid April. One EE looks like she might have started a minor molt. We haven't had a 3/3 EE egg count since 11/21/12 so she might not have laid an egg in two weeks. Ducky and Mabeline's eggs look a lot alike so I don't know when she last laid an egg. She looks and acts her normal goofy self but she isn't even a year old. Anyone else had an experience with this young of chicken starting to molt?

 

[bruceha2000]

3 (EE, Ancona and Chantecler) and a no shell.
My wife said the no shell was out in the indoor run, it collapsed when she went to pick it up and the girls were right there to devour it

I sure hope they don't figure out what is inside those hard things they lay or I might end up with egg eaters

Bruce

 

[PAchickengirl]

Must have been some thing in the air, with all the soft shells today! First time it happened to me. The shells have always been very thick so far. Have only been getting eggs for two weeks. Not sure if switching from crumbles to pellets had anything to do with it or not. Started with the pellets originally, tried the crumbles, and bought the pellets due to the waste of crumbles.

 

[PeepinChicken]

Must have been some thing in the air, with all the soft shells today! First time it happened to me. The shells have always been very thick so far. Have only been getting eggs for two weeks. Not sure if switching from crumbles to pellets had anything to do with it or not. Started with the pellets originally, tried the crumbles, and bought the pellets due to the waste of crumbles.

I too have recently switched to pellets and have noticed the same thing with 2 out of 10 girls (the white and brown leghorn) went from laying 1 everyday to one or two hard shelled eggs a week, and several soft shell eggs in between. My banty cochin dropped from one egg EVERY day down to 4 or five a week. I never had that problem with the crumbles. I use Purina Layena Sunfresh recipe. All of my other girls lay nice hard shelled brown eggs.


so today 5/10

 

[PAchickengirl]

Originally I had the pellets and they ate them well. Not sure if I should try crushing them up a bit, or what. I think these chickens are already spoiled!

 

[docspoultry]

35 from 41

 

[twinzmom]

6 eggs again today so I'm hoping the 3 egg day was just a fluke!!
We seem to be having an eating issue, I started giving them warm oatmeal,scratch,layer feed and fruit/ veggie mix in the morning and then again at bedtime, well we started to notice they were not eating their regular feed. So today I decided to just give them their warm mix once a day. I was afraid that they were missing out on some nutrients, so ill see if this works.

 

[bruceha2000]

Originally I had the pellets and they ate them well. Not sure if I should try crushing them up a bit, or what. I think these chickens are already spoiled!

The grower and layer feed I use (Poulin grains, a 4th generation Vermont family run business) comes come as pellets or crumblets. The guy at the farm and garden store described them as being the same except the crumblets are pellets broken in half. Now I don't know if they are made half size or are actually pellets broken in half or the crumblets are just pellets that get broken when the feed is handled

I've never given them pellets, the crumblets seem big enough.

Bruce