How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[PouleChick]

Gosh mine are starting to lay early in the morning - 2 before I'd let them out at 7.30 and they were already cold! My other 2 often don't lay until early afternoon silly chickens.

 

[April Barta]

Gosh mine are starting to lay early in the morning - 2 before I'd let them out at 7.30 and they were already cold! My other 2 often don't lay until early afternoon silly chickens.

I usually have 2 by 830am and they’re cold too! By lunch I have the rest. Maybe 1 super late around 5-6pm. One morning I had 6 before 9am! I love it!

 

[igorsMistress]

8/9 yesterday.

 

[Spartan22]

33 Egg Today

They look close... bah! I don’t want to wait two more months!

That looks like they could be laying anytime soon, some of my BCMs started @22-24 wks old some later.

 

[bruceha2000]

They look close... bah! I don’t want to wait two more months!

They do look quite close. I doubt you will wait more than another week or so.

Gosh mine are starting to lay early in the morning - 2 before I'd let them out at 7.30 and they were already cold! My other 2 often don't lay until early afternoon silly chickens.

Mine tend to cycle through the day. If one lays early one day she will lay later the next day, and again the next ... and so on. Of course some only lay 1 or 2 days before a day (or more for the older girls) off.

 

[PouleChick]

The other 2 laid late morning so another 4/4 day (even my silly little silkie Doris is surprising me!)

Mine tend to cycle through the day.

Makes sense I think it is 26 hours I read for an egg to go through, although these young girls seem to be laying pretty much every day so not sure how that works!

 

[bruceha2000]

Me either. Angel (2015 White Rock) started this way at 23 weeks 3 days (11/19/15):
1
day off
2
day off
5
day off
7
day off
31
day off

She had a number of other runs in the teens and twenties through the winter (her first) and spring. Tried to go broody 6/19/16, started laying again on 6/25 after I broke her then starting 7/3/16:
68 days without a break!!!!

So that "26 hour" thing clearly is an average of a large number of "samples".

 

[PouleChick]

How do you all record your eggs / hens (I was going to have an individual list but now I have 3 chickens laying almost identical eggs )?

 

[April Barta]

Pft! I just take pictures of my eggs daily and keep a total count. I think @bruceha2000 keeps it on a spreadsheet. No clue how to distinguish colors. I know my white layers since I only have 2. I can usually get my EE. The brown ones... no clue.

 

[igorsMistress]

I don't bother any more. Most of the time I just keep a daily tally but sometimes I forget.