How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[spick]

4 out of 4 yesterday. I've gotta admit that I'm envious of some of you and your 10+ eggs each day. This is our first year with chickens so we wanted to keep the number low (we had 5 but we lost one a few weeks after receiving the baby chicks), but we're adding 6 more this spring bringing our total to 10. Our coop/run holds up to 14 but I would like to keep it to around 10...if I can. I feel an addiction to chickens coming. LOL.

We have 15 , just getting 1 egg a day , I already feel we need to up our chicken count, but then we would have to build another coop.... No one tells you this... Lol

 

[Greywolf1962]

Not sure how many we would have gotten yesterday, my wufe went out and saw three birds in boxes and one egg for sure. I get home and find no eggs. I've got an egg eating dog. I think I'll just have to leave them in the run during the week and sit at the window with the BB gun this weekend.....lol

 

[GAchickennewbie]

1/4 yesterday. 3/4 the day before.

One of my four is molting so I don't expect her to hit production again for another 2-4 weeks. She's also coming on her third year of laying.

 

[Scott16475]

I started with 4 pullets in June 2013 and am now up to 35 in total. 32 hens and 3 roosters. Chicken math is VERY real

HAHAHA. that is awesome!

 

[Scott16475]

We have 15 , just getting 1 egg a day , I already feel we need to up our chicken count, but then we would have to build another coop.... No one tells you this... Lol

1 out of 15? It drives me nuts when we receive less than 3 eggs a day. We're in the middle of a suburban neighborhood so we don't have a lot of land but if we did I could see multiple coops in our yard.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I always tell people to have at least 2 coops, for quarantine sick or new birds, separating a broody or other eventualities.

You guys with 15 birds and 1 egg, just wait a bit. Days are getting longer and they'll all kick in shortly.

It is a bummer to buy eggs when you have 15 chickens.

Last winter I had 30 hens and anywhere from 0-3 a day for about 3 weeks.

 

[COChix]

4 out of 4 yesterday. I've gotta admit that I'm envious of some of you and your 10+ eggs each day. This is our first year with chickens so we wanted to keep the number low (we had 5 but we lost one a few weeks after receiving the baby chicks), but we're adding 6 more this spring bringing our total to 10. Our coop/run holds up to 14 but I would like to keep it to around 10...if I can. I feel an addiction to chickens coming. LOL.

Don't worry sounds like you will be in the eggs soon, but watch out about chicken math, it seems to creep up on people.

I started with 4 pullets in June 2013 and am now up to 35 in total.  32 hens and 3 roosters.  Chicken math is VERY real

Lol, you weren't messing around were you?

We have 15 , just getting 1 egg a day , I already feel we need to up our chicken count, but then we would have to build another coop.... No one tells you this... Lol

Always good to have two coops.

I always tell people to have at least 2 coops, for quarantine sick or new birds, separating a broody or other eventualities.

You guys with 15 birds and 1 egg, just wait a bit. Days are getting longer and they'll all kick in shortly.

It is a bummer to buy eggs when you have 15 chickens.

Last winter I had 30 hens and anywhere from 0-3 a day for about 3 weeks.

Agree on the two coops thingy, we have two, both with access to the enclosed run. We have used it just like you said for a chicken hospital after a girl ghost pecked in the eye. She could have access to the enclosed run during the day while the flock was out free ranging. In the spring, we will set it up for some of our broody girls with some hatching eggs. I will have to keep hatching in check, we have 25 chickens now, we can have 50. So between the broodies and our incubator I am a little concerned. How will I keep it all in check? I already will be getting some BCM hatching eggs from a neighbor to add to our flock. I need a game plan and got stick to it before hatching.

 

[Outpost JWB]

4 out of 4 yesterday. I've gotta admit that I'm envious of some of you and your 10+ eggs each day. This is our first year with chickens so we wanted to keep the number low (we had 5 but we lost one a few weeks after receiving the baby chicks), but we're adding 6 more this spring bringing our total to 10. Our coop/run holds up to 14 but I would like to keep it to around 10...if I can. I feel an addiction to chickens coming. LOL.

I started with 4 pullets in June 2013 and am now up to 35 in total. 32 hens and 3 roosters. Chicken math is VERY real

Yes, @Scott16475 , sounds like you are catching on to chicken math. I started with 6 laying hens spring 2013. Then there was the opportunity to use an incubator, a couple farmer friends gave me chickens, (because who doesn't need more chickens), buy some of these, some of those, (because I need those too!) here I am now.

50 something chickens. I think we counted 53 last time. 14 roosters (that is 13 roosters too many!) Most are going to freezer camp when we get warmer weather. But here comes spring. And I need blue egg layers, and chocolate brown egg layers, and (believe it or not,) white egg layers. There is my chicken math lesson.

 

[Outpost JWB]

This is how my daughter & I are keeping track of our egg numbers.

 

[tntchix]

We were doing that...now i just post on here