How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[dquarles74]

14/18 today! They are doing great with a light and timer to extend their daylight hours.

 

[PAchickengirl]

7/8 again today. I haven't ever gotten a double yolker, that i know of. One of the BA lays a pretty large, dark brown egg that often hits the top of the carton, but only one yolk. No one I've given the eggs to has mentioned it either. My son is already making a list of new chicks he wants to get. I wouldn't mind selling eggs this summer. We are along a state highway of sorts, and the lady down the road that sold them doesn't any more.

 

[PAchickengirl]

Double post, can't delete

 

[Arkansas81]

All the girls laid yesterday..got 8 today. I'm finally able to start selling eggs for hatching/eating. I have production reds - they are laying machines!!!

 

[Gifa]

So, I got two eggs... of the three I was expecting... out of 5 hens that had been laying... out of the 7 total.

Mini moult at 35 weeks ?!?!?!?
(thinking cap on)
Mid June hatch to mid-January = 6 months = 26 weeks
35 weeks - 26 weeks = 7 weeks
Mid January + 7 weeks = 1st week of March
So when it finally starts to warm up and we near 12 hours of natural light a day, my girls are going to moult and stop laying?

5 eggs again today, including Zorra for the 13th day in a row and it was a MONSTER 82 gram egg! Gotta be a double yolk. That plus the Faverolles's 40 g egg makes 2 large with 3 yolks

AGAIN the BAs and EEs are leading the pack, all 4 laid today. Anybody wants to know which chickens lay well in the winter? Black Australorps and Easter Eggers! Of course, now that I've said that out loud (as it were) I've probably jinxed it and they will stop laying

Loved the way you summarized my text, very concise and accurate

Bruce

My summarization technique is Irish!

Interestingly, one of the two EEs that laid today was one of the delinquents from yesterday. Had she laid yesterday, she would have laid before 9am... and indeed, she was in the box yesterday at 8:30am. But she did not lay and there was no sign of a shell-less egg or any egg eating... She laid today around 1... which is precisely when she should have laid after a day she laid at 9am... My other delinquent from yesterday, a SLW, a supposed winter layer breed, felt it was completely appropriate to take a third day in a row off from laying... so I hope she really is molting... the 9 month mini-molt is common enough for people to know about it, but not so common that it happens for everyone...

My other SLW, a supposed winter layer breed, and another one of my EEs, have both turned their axial feathers skyward, flipping the monkey so to speak, at winter and its short days having yet to lay their first eggs... Incidently, Bruce, at it's highest, the sun in Kansas City is getting up to a solar elevation of 30 degrees... yours is about 25 degrees high. Also... -4 for you tonight... yikes! Only down to 32 for us and then up near 60 tomorrow. Unless we're molting, or just have our feathers ruffled about the crazy swings in temperature, my girls have 0 excuses for such poor laymanship. But as I understand, all pullets lay fairly well through their first winter... but the winter after their first hard molt EEs show horrificly low production, as in you're lucky to get 2-3 a week from EEs in the winter horrific.

I should see a white egg, and a grey egg tomorrow... If I'm reeeeeeeaaaaalllly lucky, maybe my delinquent SLW will decide 4 days off in a row is ridiculous and lay a brown egg... or maybe one or both of the two slackers will decide tomorrow is the day they'll get up off their royal, feathered back sides and make me an omlette.

 

[Spikes Chooks]

3 eggs from 4 hens. Miraculous really as the heatwave has returned and we just reached 46C/115F. There's a mister on in the chicken run so they seem to be bearing up. Who knows how hot it must be in their nesting boxes, hope they were really fast at it today

 

[RMo2]

4 from 5

 

[karlamaria]

3 from 7 of course 3 decided to molt and the copper maran lays when she wants taking months at a time off. She is going byby if she does not lay regular soon.

 

[Gifa]

...and we just reached 46C/115F.

I would die on the way out to the coop...

 

[JimWWhite]

It's been raining sideways here in central NC for the past few days. We have so much water it's even gotten into the run. I've got to go out this morning and see if I can trench around the run to move some of it away so things will dry out. I got home last night and it was starting to sleet. When I stepped into the run I knew it was bad. I was standing in water inside the run. Never had that before. The Gals, including the guineas were all water-logged. Drenched to the bone. They were all inside the coop which is inside my run but they were a bunch of 'fowl' looking sad sacks. I'm hoping none of them gets sick from this. I've never had a water problem before but just too much has been coming down everything is over-saturated. At least it's supposed to dry out and stay dry for the next week or so according to the Weather Channel.

As far as eggs go, on Wednesday we only got 11 which was strange. But yesterday we got 22 from our 24 BSL's. Has to be the weather that's got them all messed up.