How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[minnehaha]

How about a basket o' babies??

....so darn adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to get my chick fix at the feed store today. It took all my strength not to buy a few. I had to keep reminding myself that I have eggs going into lock down on Monday. I candled a few this morning and they are alive and kicking. Oh but to already have them like you do........so cute! Thanks for sharing, they look super healthy. Did they come from Dunlap hatchery? Our feed stores get most of their chicks from there, and some from Murray McMurray, Or did you order them?



Are they in the house?

 

[Cluckies]

She's competing for first place with my pullet!!!

We better keep tabs on these crazy girls. I've never seen such a big pullet egg, but then, I've only owned chickens for a year.

That is true! All my other chickens laid golf ball sized eggs first, then this! lol
Here is the golf ball size eggs I got when the other girls started laying, even the Gold Comet!

 

[Blooie]

8/10 + Scout. Thrilled to see the Easter Eggers kicking it back in to 100% for the first time since October, after a winter of one excuse after another from them.

Agatha: "I'm not laying, I'm broody."
Daphne: "Well, I'm not laying, I'm molting."
Mathilda: "Oh, yeah? I'm not laying because it's winter and it's cold and dark."
Gladys: "No fair! If you girls aren't laying then I'm not going to either!"
I was getting a blue egg here, and another one there all winter - and toward the end of January I was getting two regularly, three on a rare occasion. But this is the first time all 4 laid eggs in the same day since Agatha decided it was more fun to lay than sit.

 

[steve horner]

44/55 this is the most have ever gotten

 

[minnehaha]

That is true! All my other chickens laid golf ball sized eggs first, then this! lol
Here is the golf ball size eggs I got when the other girls started laying, even the Gold Comet!

Yes, now that is NORMAL!

Let's face it, we have some special girls, ambitious, overachievers!

 

[minnehaha]

8/10 + Scout. Thrilled to see the Easter Eggers kicking it back in to 100% for the first time since October, after a winter of one excuse after another from them.

Agatha: "I'm not laying, I'm broody."
Daphne: "Well, I'm not laying, I'm molting."
Mathilda: "Oh, yeah? I'm not laying because it's winter and it's cold and dark."
Gladys: "No fair! If you girls aren't laying then I'm not going to either!"
I was getting a blue egg here, and another one there all winter - and toward the end of January I was getting two regularly, three on a rare occasion. But this is the first time all 4 laid eggs in the same day since Agatha decided it was more fun to lay than sit.

OH MY GOSH.....LOL LOL LOL.....Love it!!!!!!!
It's a good thing we really can't understand what they are saying........

 

[minnehaha]

44/55 this is the most have ever gotten

WOW! That is a whole lot of eggs!!!!

 

[HappyChickadee]

One! I hope my other ladies aren't getting sick. It was probably the cold weather.

 

[Blooie]

....so darn adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to get my chick fix at the feed store today. It took all my strength not to buy a few. I had to keep reminding myself that I have eggs going into lock down on Monday. I candled a few this morning and they are alive and kicking. Oh but to already have them like you do........so cute! Thanks for sharing, they look super healthy. Did they come from Dunlap hatchery? Our feed stores get most of their chicks from there, and some from Murray McMurray, Or did you order them?



Are they in the house?

Thanks. I think they're keepers too! I got them from Shipton's Big R in Billings Montana on Sunday afternoon. Type that into your search box on the forum and you'll quickly see why I cancelled my mail order and bought these little ladies!

They are in the house at the moment. The plan was to have the outside brooder (the same one we used for Scout, remember?) set up for the new chicks' arrival the first week in April. But watching these being unpacked and seeing the care they got from the second the boxes were wheeled over to the bin area changed that plan real quick. Since the brooder isn't difficult to set up, we thought we'd get home, pop these guys in the house for the first 24 hours to make sure all were eating and drinking, and moving well, then putting them out under Mama Heating Pad in the morning. Just wanted to be sure they were all strong enough first. Well, they were, Ken wasn't. He ended up in the emergency room that night, then was admitted to the hospital. He just got out late yesterday. And of course we went from temps in the 40s to -2 in a day and half. So until Ken's a little stronger this weekend, and the temps get back up into the 20s, the babies will stay in here. We're supposed to be seeing the end of the cold - and it got up to 45 today. As long as the broody system is the same (with a lot more room, however) they'll make the transition just as well as Scout did.

 

[Kendrain]

I started with 8. Then I saw a picture of silver laced wyandottes. Then was told araucanas lay super blue eggs. So we went to 13 chicks. Then after a few months 2 of those were roosters and vicious. And then the dog next door took out a few. Long story short after adding and culling and the neighbor dog I have had mix and matched and gained and lost. Now no more dog. and I have 17 layers and one Yankee roodle. But I hope to to get some ok be to go broody soon. And add some more. Ideas?