How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Gifa]

Flock Age
42 weeks
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Zoe​

Nandi​

Inara​

Kaylee​

Yolanda​

Saffron​

Bridget
B. Leghorn​

SLW​

SLW​

EE​

EE​

EE​

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Date​

Laying Record​

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# of
Eggs
3/6​

1:15pm​

day off​

on hiatus​

9:45am​

1:45pm​

8:45am​

1:30pm​

5
3/7​

day off​

7:45am​

on hiatus​

10:45am​

day off​

11:45am​

3:45pm​

4
3/8​

11:00am​

9:15am​

on hiatus​

11:15am​

day off​

12:45pm​

day off​

4
3/9​

1:00pm​

10:30am​

on hiatus​

1:30pm​

1:30pm​

2:45pm​

9:30am​

6
3/10​

5:00pm​

1:45pm​

on hiatus​

day off​

day off​

day off​

2:30pm​

3
3/11​

day off​

2:45pm​

on hiatus​

8:30am​

8:45am​

9:15am​

day off​

4
3/12​

9:00am​

5:15pm​

on hiatus​

10:30am​

11:15am​

11:30am​

day off​

5
3/13​

11:00am​

day off​

on hiatus​

11:00am​

12:45am​

1:30am​

9:30am​

5
3/14​

1:00pm​

9:00am​

1:30pm​

1:00pm​

1:15pm​

4:00pm​

11:00am​

7
3/15​

4:45pm​

10:00am​

day off​

3:00pm​

4:45pm​

day off​

12:30pm​

5
3/16​

day off​

11-1pm​

?​

4-6pm​

day off​

8-10am​

2-4pm​

4-5
3/17​

8-10am​

12-2pm​

?​

day off​

8-10am​

11-1pm​

4-6pm​

5-6​

Oh... today's going to be a great day... Guess who's finally decided to sit in a nest again now that the last piles of snow have completely disappeared from sight? She's in the nest right now...

Edit:

7/7 today... 100%


Edit: I made the chart 550 pixels wide versus 650 pixels wide after Karlamaria's comment... maybe that fixed it?

 

[epluim]

That is quite the detailed chart! Do you spend all day with the chickens?

 

[Gifa]

That is quite the detailed chart! Do you spend all day with the chickens?

Nope. But I am home all day and over the winter, I was going out there every 2 hours to make sure no egg froze. I could tell by how warm the egg was, how recently it was laid (15 minute resolution). This afforded me insight into each of their laying cycles. Once I got the hang of that, I can pretty much predict when the next egg out of which hen is due, and I only go out there now at that time.

Knowing that I was expecting a couple by 2pm, I went out there at 1:30 to check. I just walked back in with 4 eggs...

Zoe's (luke warm=1pm)
Inara's (hot= 1:30pm...actually, she laid this one right in front of me)
Kaylee's (luke warm=1pm)
Yolanda's (warm=1:15pm).

 

[ShellyTurtle]

I've been getting about 2-3 eggs every day since the first day when we had 5 in one day from my two girls.

 

[Eggzausted]

not a bad day,19/21 total.That's 7 from my 9 table stock layers and 12 from my 12 breeders

 

[karlamaria]

Nope.  But I am home all day and over the winter, I was going out there every 2 hours to make sure no egg froze.  I could tell by how warm the egg was, how recently it was laid (15 minute resolution).  This afforded me insight into each of their laying cycles.  Once I got the hang of that, I can pretty much predict when the next egg out of which hen is due, and I only go out there now at that time.


Knowing that I was expecting a couple by 2pm, I went out there at 1:30 to check.  I just walked back in with 4 eggs...


Zoe's (luke warm=1pm)

Inara's (hot= 1:30pm...actually, she laid this one right in front of me)

Kaylee's (luke warm=1pm)

Yolanda's (warm=1:15pm).

you said you got 7/7 today but you only have 4 chickens on your chart. And it shows inara with a ? Why do you have a chart of 4 if you have 7 ? Or am I reading it wrong?

 

[karlamaria]

I've been getting about 2-3 eggs every day since the first day when we had 5 in one day from my two girls.

five eggs from 2 girls ? You must have missed eggs, there is no way a chicken will lay 3 eggs and two is pretty much unheard of. Someone playing a trck on you ?

 

[karlamaria]

6/8. For the third day in a row.

 

[wayneclea]

Well, today I checked and found Goldie on the nest, so I left her be.
Was out chopping at some weeds, when on started cackling like crazy, then it was 2 cackling.
I wondered if there might possibly be a snake, so I went around and checked.
No snake, but 3 eggs

How do you get 5 eggs from 2 hens? I don't think I have seen any lay more than one per day.

On the double yolks, I first saw those at a diner in NY, around Cortland, back in the 60's. Was amazed. the gal said they allw ere like that.
years later, I bought Jumbo eggs at the store, and they were all double yolk.
Have not seen em in a long long time.

Austras eggs are elongated, like she was making them to launch from a cannon or something. Far longer than Goldies, which are longer tahn reds.
No matter, I figure they are still going to be good eating.

 

[Gifa]

you said you got 7/7 today but you only have 4 chickens on your chart. And it shows inara with a ? Why do you have a chart of 4 if you have 7 ? Or am I reading it wrong?

Sometimes if your web browser's window is too small, it cuts off columns on the right... It sounds like you've got the window pulled over so you don't see the ads... But it's there... I see the chart with all 7 of my hens.

The question mark under Inara's column indicate that her pattern is too irregular to predict. This is mostly because today was her first egg after taking 2 and a half weeks off. I'll have a better idea of what her cycle looks like in a few eggs.

The rows in blue are days in the future... so... a blue question mark is a future unknown, a blue time range, is the general time I expect a hen to lay in on that day in the future.