How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[karlamaria]

Not all marans lay dark eggs, she looks like a mix. And my maran lays about 3 days a week, and is always the first to stop laying in fall and last to lay in spring lol. Marans are to me not the best layer.
We got 8/8 today and yesterday, it was a good day. We seem to think a lot of protein can help with egg laying, my girls laid through the winter ( not the maran) and we had plenty of eggs, until several went and molted, then we went down to 3 eggs a day. But man are they making it up to us now. We have been getting between 6 and. 8 for the last month and a half. We like to give our girls extra protein each day, in the form of seeds, and meal worms, and romain lettuce and yogert . We give this at the end of the day just before bed time. This way they have a good bed time meal, and the extra protein help make the eggs. ( our thinking anyways)

 

[wayneclea]

This may be her when she was little. have not had time nor chance to take recent photos

she is the black one in this picture.

 

[happycat]

I am not sure how many of my 18 girls are laying but I have been getting 7 to 8 eggs a day. They are 20 weeks as of yesterday. So far this morning I have gotten 8 and right now I have 2 hens sitting in the nest boxes. Looks like it might be 10 before the day is half over. I got the 1st egg on February 5th.

 

[KayTee]

3/3 today - my girls are doing well at the moment!

 

[SD Bird Lady]

4 outta 5 today!! a first for my girls. Down side...the boys dropped two on the way into the house so the dog got them. It is so hard b/c I want them involved but it is very frustrating when they drop eggs. Ecspecially with a day like today as I was finally going to get to show hubby that they are worth their keep haha

 

[bruceha2000]

This may be her when she was little. have not had time nor chance to take recent photos

she is the black one in this picture.

Hard to say. Compared to my hatchery BAs:
- Coloring of the chick looks about right.
- Comb in the second picture is bigger than the comb on my BAs by a fair bit. The points on my girls combs start almost on their head without a single comb "support" like yours.

But remember, mine are hatchery so who knows how "standard" they are.

Perhaps she is (mostly?) a BA but forgot to pick up the egg coloring kit on her way through the hatching process? A chicken's egg shell will be either blue or white shy a means of adding pigment.

My BAs are pretty consistent in the level of brown in their shells but the Easter Eggers (one lays blue, the other green) shift their colors through time from DEFINITELY blue (or green) to I THINK it's blue (or green). I just figure it takes time to fill their "pigment pot" and if they lay eggs faster than they refill "the pot" the eggs get lighter in color.

Bruce

 

[SD Bird Lady]

Hard to say. Compared to my hatchery BAs:
- Coloring of the chick looks about right.
- Comb in the second picture is bigger than the comb on my BAs by a fair bit. The points on my girls combs start almost on their head without a single comb "support" like yours.

But remember, mine are hatchery so who knows how "standard" they are.

Perhaps she is (mostly?) a BA but forgot to pick up the egg coloring kit on her way through the hatching process? A chicken's egg shell will be either blue or white shy a means of adding pigment.

My BAs are pretty consistent in the level of brown in their shells but the Easter Eggers (one lays blue, the other green) shift their colors through time from DEFINITELY blue (or green) to I THINK it's blue (or green). I just figure it takes time to fill their "pigment pot" and if they lay eggs faster than they refill "the pot" the eggs get lighter in color.

Bruce

I wonder about that as I only have 5 hens and get about 7-8 different color combos The BO is very consistent but my Brahmas have speckled eggs sometimes and other times no speckles. I think it depends on how fast things proceed. I have caught them laying and can now tell who's it is based on size/ shape.

 

[lahowardjr]

03/05/13: 3/14. Not too good.

 

[reksat]

4 out 10 not to good for only 2 yr old RIR's, must be the cold and snowy weather and being cooped up and not able to roam.

 

[wayneclea]

yesterday, one egg, from Goldie. Same today, one egg from Goldie.
took a few pix of austra... edited teh best two.




She is the one that is low girl in the pecking order.
I think it may be a few days or so before she lays another egg.