How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[gander007]

2/3 chickens

 

[MEMama3]

I am up to 3-5 a day from 5 active layers (one is brooding and one is old as dirt so they're not being counted). Production has gone up by 40% in the last three weeks.

 

[Chickens R Us]

19/28

 

[AmericanMom]

7:30 am one had already did her job... going to process all the young males and two old hens this weekend, think maybe that's why my girls are not laying so well, noticed yesterday those rowdy males hang out around the coop and waylay the girls going back and forth to the coop

Hoping for three or four more eggs today

 

[sandesnow]

I am going to go back and read this whole thread, but.. In the mean time, I have been regularly getting 1+ eggs per chicken multiple times a week. (I would say at least 2 times a week.)

Normally, I would be ecstatic! But! This being winter I don't want my girls to get tired out. I was lucky to get really good layers when we got them. Is there anything I should be doing to ensure that they are healthy? I feed just a normal laying mesh that is 16-18% protein, I give them Grit and Oyster shell once a week. Currently they are not free-ranging, as the weather has been too cold and too much snow on the ground for them to be out. They are 7 months old (Hatch date was June 24th, 2013) and started laying at 17 weeks. They have nearly layed an egg every single day. I am thinking that each is laying an extra one a week. (at least, possibly 2 extra) There has only been 2-4 times I remember only getting one egg from my pair. (We started with 3, but suffered a loss at the end of Autumn, which one ceased laying for about a week, where the other went into a light molt for about 2 and a half weeks at that time, then went right back into laying at that time.)

Is this normal for them to lay more than one in a 24 hour period? They are Golden Comets. We get our initial lays between 07:30 and 09:00 am, then there is usually another egg call at about 13:00-14:00. We have a very regular routine.

 

[Cluckincanadian]

6/9

 

[1876 Farm]

Pretty hen! I was looking at the Rooster in the first of the 3 pics on the first page. It's a pretty small picture but it looks like he has a rose comb. Is that the case? I don't see any points on it.

The lady we purchased him through said that he had suffered frostbite and the points fell off. I'll try to upload some better pictures of him into an album in my profile.

 

[SelfMadeFarming]

1/5

 

[raisinemright]

6/6

 

[Red Feather]

8/11 today. cold cold here in Oklahoma