How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[draye]

Will someone please tell me how to send an ovasion on this site 

You see the little thumbs up sign? Click gat and you can give an ovation and if you want to you can add a comment.

 

[tav1]

I just started with 3 hen yesterday in which I bought,....there around 1 yr. old RIR...... and this morning I woke up to find my very first egg
and around 2 pm I received another one.

 

[matt44644]

14/15

 

[RonP]

5/10

 

[COChix]

Good morning, sorry it took so long to respond, we had a HUGE snow storm yesterday and it took ALL day to plow out.  We are on 18 acres up in the mountains and our driveway is 1/4 mile long and t's so steep we have a switch back!  We have ATV's with plows to get it cleared.  Then there is the parking lot in front of the house, that is very time consuming to plow.  I call  plowing snow my "winter recreational sport" because some winters it snows so much that it seems like that's all I do.  

Back to chickens~

Our hatching room is a part of an 8x16 hen house, it is partitioned off with a door on the inside.  It's absolutely perfect for a broody and chicks.  Right now though, our 3 ducks go in there at night.  I had to separate them from the chickens because they are bullies and of course super messy!!!

I made a coop album with pictures of the inside of the coop if you want to see it. I see you have a coop album too, Im going to check it out.  Is there pics of the broody coop inside the big coop in the album?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6879108/coops/

broody:
Now that we have had our first big storm, I know that I could wait to let a broody hatch eggs, it really would add to the complication of life....don't even get me started on keeping even more water from freezing.  

My broody plucks all of her feathers from her belly as well.  I had 3 broodies late summer, all 3 plucked their tummy feathers.  The only broody I'll let hatch eggs this spring is that one black orp though, she was by far the best mom.

eggs:
I have an egg handling licence and a business licence for Washington state.  The number one problem  have is that I must provide new egg cartons, and they are EXPENSIVE.  I'm still looking for a work around on that one.

Heat:
I do not provide heat in the coop.  However, I do have 2 heat lamps set up for extreme cold, maybe 10 below zero.  The heat lamps in an 8 x16 building should only raise the temp a little.  I am mounting a temp sensor in the coop today, it's wifi, so I can read the temp inside the coop from inside the house.  The heat lamps are still up for debate though, still researching, I do not want to see frostbite....

I'm not supplementing light either.  Your egg numbers are better than mine.  I got 18/27 the day before yesterday, but only 14 yesterday.  I provide a lot of extra protein as well.

Missed your post but saw the upload you did in the coop are and checked out coop before reading this post. Great job on the coop and run. Love the poop hammocks, will have to see if feasible for our roosts, we could raise our roosts up a bit more. Love the old door (I think it was a door) roosting area. Love all your advice and experience with a broody, really helps people like me who will be doing it for their first time in the spring. I have been reading the broody hen thread which is great, the all Nautral Remedies, the DIY thread, fodder threads and incubating and hatching material. What else are we gonna do on a Sunday, it is cold and snow on the ground. Actually I am off to find a recipe for scratch pumpkin bread as we cooked down a pumpkin we grew and I got 9 cups of purée from it for my baking delight. Oh and I gotta make pie dough for a pumpkin pie. I gotta take a break from my chicken job for now.

Oh the whole reason why I am here....today totals so far, not sure we will get more or not. They put themselves to bed by about 5 right now and I just went out to feed for the night and check for eggs.

12/23 - oh they are tired today, that is the word in the yard.

 

[Carpenter Coop]

4/10/15

One new layer today. Sm brown egg

 

[COChix]

Ok so add two more everyone is tucked away for night.

14/23

 

[tntchix]

11 and I believe 1 is new

but had to cull a bully, one of the Isa Browns. Dammit Janet was messing with a bunch of other hens and the rooster, picking at them like crazy and would NOT let my banty's eat or roost. Problem solved.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

15/24 today, girls were happier today with it being cold & not raining.

 

[sarahandbray]

11/12 today
These pullet eggs are ADORABLE! We had new white leghorn and a Pioneer hen start laying in week 18. Now, a few days in, I can't tell which hens laid which eggs--all standard sizes.
Oh--and I actually SAW one of my Golden Comets lay an egg today. First time in 37 years I've ever seen a chicken actually lay an egg! Crazy!!

BTW, hubby got me two new sections of PoultryNet, a great incubator, and a bunch of other chicken accessories for Christmas! He teases me mercilessly about this chicken obsession but also is a huge enabler! I now have a 15,000sf electrified pasture for our 38 chickens!! They LOVE it--and I love watching them enjoy it. It now encompasses our entire vegetable garden--INSTANT fertilizer for the off months.