How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[karenerwin]

Sounds like you finally got your flock trained, Nice

All really get here is cats, bob cats dogs, fox, coyotes and the wild animals I understand and understand their need for their way of life it's them house animals that really do the most damage and eat what they kill but then the LAW says I cant eat the Vermin I kill in my yard so it makes us even I guess .



Sunday




Amazing I found 8 chicken eggs today

But my Molten Houdan ladys haven't produced one egg from the day I turned the incubator on almost two weeks ago .




And 1 duck egg

Also 1 goose egg with out a shell so that would have come from a goose that was hatched last year .

Temp today in the high 80's with winds of 15 MPH and gusts that shook the dust of the window sills on the inside .

le I was writing this I remembered that I hadn't shut the door on one of the chicken coops so I went out and a fresh chick was making noise behind some boxes so I checked the momma who was sitting on her nest and there were no more eggs under her so I put her on the floor and she just wanted to fight me till one of the chicks came out to greet her then she went behind the boxes and the next thing I got to see was a bunch of eggs come rolling out that she was a pushing out of her way so I laughed and turned out the light and came back in to tell ya all about it .

What a funny story. I can picture you standing there and then all these eggs come rolling out and stopping near your feet. I hope you got several babies from that hatch! My 2 dark egg layers, Black Penedesencas, haven't laid an egg in what feels like a month! I know for 1 of them it has been longer than that. She hatched some chicks and they are 14 weeks old and she still hasn't laid an egg! The other one laid 1 egg about 2 weeks ago. They do not have artificial lighting in their coop and at least 1 of them appears to be molting.

0 eggs again from the EE coop. They do not have artificial lighting either and most of them are molting.

7 eggs today. 5 from 10 hens and 2 from 4 hens ( and 0 from 8 hens)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Today at 8 so far have not gone back out pulled the carpet out of my
room today... about a month ago we did the living room one hallway
had a dog pee in my room last night said nope not happening again
very old linoleum... very old 1930 style sparkles too...
so also loosing 4 of the 7 woooohoooo finally ...
8 of 18 + 7 till Wednesday

 

[Spartan22]

10 Eggs today

 

[chickymamma78]

2/9 slackers

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[gander007]

Monday


only 1 egg





Temp mid 80's with some steady 10 MPH winds

 

[GC-Raptor]

Summer's back, 50s this morning 80s this afternoon and sunny, yea. 5/5 today. GC

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: I remember when you lost your babies and your coop this spring.

It was a pretty crappy/busy/overwhelming time for you.

I'm glad to hear those chicks are at point of lay. Wow how time flies!

I can't wait until I can get rid of the heat lamp because I don't want to influence my girls laying with light.
I prefer to know who's laying despite of the short days and select their progeny for replacements.
I'm planning to move that brooder out of the coop for next year.
(My husband's thrilled about that.

We JUST moved it in there last fall...lol)

But I'm not using the heat lamp for my girls. They've gotta be tough enough to withstand the winter themselves.
I'm using a heat lamp for my young chicks.
I've been hatching all year long and it's a steady flow of baby chicks into this brooder
I've used heat lamps for the last 30 years; for my baby pigs, my baby lambs and now again for all the chicks I'm hatching.
I realize there are inherent risks. I really appreciate your concern.

 

[TJordan]

I remember when you lost your babies and your coop this spring.  
It was a pretty crappy/busy/overwhelming time for you.
I'm glad to hear those chicks are at point of lay. Wow how time flies!

I can't wait until I can get rid of the heat lamp because I don't want to influence my girls laying with light.
I prefer to know who's laying despite of the short days and select their progeny for replacements.
I'm planning to move that brooder out of the coop for next year.
(My husband's thrilled about that.   We JUST moved it in there last fall...lol)

But I'm not using the heat lamp for my girls. They've gotta be tough enough to withstand the winter themselves.
I'm using a heat lamp for my young chicks.
I've been hatching all year long and it's a steady flow of baby chicks into this brooder
I've used heat lamps for the last 30 years; for my baby pigs, my baby lambs and now again for all the chicks I'm hatching.
I realize there are inherent risks. I really appreciate your concern.

Ok. You know what your doing. I wasn't wise and that fire put me so far off heat lamps I'm a tiny bit paranoid about them.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote:

@Wickedchicken6 I don't know if my girls eggs bounce, I haven't tossed them, but that would be nice as, I wouldn't have to be as careful with them.
How do you break open a bouncy egg?
5/5 GC

Where I live I have three choices; chick starter, chick grower/finisher and layer IF I want to feed a "balanced" diet.
I bought layer last winter, but what a pain having 3 types of food...plus the grain I supplement with.
But I don't have a meat flock. And I don't just have a layer flock. I've been hatching since January.
So I have a constant flow of chicks, plus I have a ton of roosters I don't want damaged from the layer food.
So I've ended up feeding chick starter since I ran out of grower.

So I've converted to an all chick starter diet for everyone. Consulted my vet yesterday.
Thumbs up for the food as long as the eggs seem ok.
As soon as the flock's done molting, I'll switch to grower for over winter to reduce amount the urates being excreted.
I'll move back to starter in the spring when the chicks arrive.

By bouncing I mean throwing the eggs as hard as I can across our lawn, or as high as I can in the air or directly at the ground.
After being thrown 3 times, the eggs may finally crack. The hens ripped down my nest box cover and have dirtied the nests.
These are the eggs I'm throwing around because I'm feeding them to the chickens. (Life's too short not to have fun, right?)
I have 6 old store bought eggs and I'm gonna throw one of them just to see. I'm curious.

I haven't given oyster shells since last year.

I don't know how many eggs, because I left the poopy ones

in the boxes and I didn't count before I fed/threw them around.
Will be back on track once those nest boxes are covered and cleaned.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Ok. You know what your doing. I wasn't wise and that fire put me so far off heat lamps I'm a tiny bit paranoid about them.

You are probably like, the only one that has ever said that I know what I'm doing...

I'm gonna take this and run with it!

I'm also going to show both my hubby and my son so they can realize how amazing I am!

(I'm so joking..so not amazing. It'll a give the guys a good laugh, though.)

I can totally understand how that could change your feelings about heat lamps.