How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Aceoky]

@LoriFitz34 Lori, perhaps the "treats" were diluting the nutrition they needed to lay? By cutting treats back they're now getting what they need & laying once again?

BTW those are some nice eggs!

 

[pennyJo1960]

@LoriFitz34 I agree just from the garden does not have the nutrients purchasing chicken feed is very important that and oyster eggs take allot from a bird to keep shells hard offer oyster separate daily please

 

[Shorty22366]

Eggs from last two days.

 

[bruceha2000]

Welcome to BYC @LoriFitz34 !!
My girls get treats, that would be kitchen scraps Black Oil Sunflower Seed (BOSS) in the morning and scratch at night. But the BOSS and scratch (especially the scratch) shouldn't be more than 10% of their diet. Mine have layer pellets available 24 hours a day (of course they don't eat at night).

3 today (including one from the pale new layer - although a different shape so maybe there are 2 laying now ).

I bet you have a new layer. Shape, size and color is how I tell which hen laid a given egg. That and location. For example the pullets that have been laying have used one end of the 4' enclosed box. But Angel (2015 White Rock) has always laid in the other end. She laid an egg this week (unexpected since she's not been a winter layer in the past) and moved the 2 plastic eggs from the right side to the left. And Yuki always laid in the cat litter nesting box in the feed "room". RARELY will another bird lay there. She was the last to moult and is also a WR, it will be interesting to see if she decides to lay in a week or so.

 

[karenerwin]

Thank you - I was so stressed I wouldn't find something and then both the dress and jacket just found me days before the wedding! I think I'll get masses of wear from the jacket too as the fur collar is removable. Just need to clean the lemon icing off the front (was being hostessy and handing around the cake as no one was getting up to go and get some and I think the sister that made it was feeling sad!).

Well I think with the Santa bags they are a spin off of a stocking really. As a kid we always had santa bags rather than stockings (maybe something to do with the lack of chimnies to hang stockings on in Australia maybe ). thye are good as you can fit all the FAther Christmas pressies in them (unless there is a big one which I put under the bag) and then the rest under the tree are from other people. I don't get it here - they say that all the presents are from Pere Noël which I don't like so we do our thing from more Aussie / UK traditions.


I just checked a map and apparently :
10 h 58 min (1,140 km)
via A20
Fastest route, the usual traffic

• This route has tolls.
• This route crosses through multiple countries.

So reeeeaaaaaalllllly long day or a 2 day drive - pretty route though!

I just looked and it is only about 2hrs 20 mins to Rotterdam where there are cheap flights to Bergerac (1/2 hour away!) - depends how much you want to come visit France - would be lovely to meet you.

Hmm, I don't think we will make it to France this time. I will be traveling with my German student and I don't think she has the money to fly anywhere. I would have liked to go meet you. Maybe if I get the chance to travel overseas again.

That is exciting- are they the pale blue-green ones? There must be something about the passing of the solstice that is sending them all messages to start laying!
No, it was just a light brown egg.

I've forgotten Penny, how many chickens do you have in the 2 coops?

Only 2 yesterday, we'll see what today brings!

Another traditions question that has just come up on my cloth nappy forum. Do you guys in the States have 'Boxing Day' (the 26th) and if you do is it a public holiday? Yesterday was my favorite day - chilling with a book, eating leftovers, playing games - none of the stress of Christmas day itself but here in france it isn't a holiday so everyone was back at work which I find really sad. I love Boxing day and think (especially in the depths of winter) those couple of days are really important to recharge batteries.

No, no boxing day here in the States. I think they have it in Canada though.

 

[karenerwin]

So- help me, Chicken family. My Flock is composed of a variety of chickens- both hens and roosters, all different ages. They are partially for eggs and also pet enjoyment. My problem is that in the last two years my chickens have done a terrible job of producing eggs. I hatch newbies EVERY spring. I am fond of them and did not want to get rid of them, but decided recently I would just need to restart my coop worrying that perhaps a disease of some sort had found its way in from adopting new hens. I have tried all basic medications and have the coop well designed and cared for. They are spoiled with my garden and scraps. Basically all I do is feed them...and I’d get 1-2 eggs per day per 18 hens. Well, I began to give them less treats from the garden as winter is now here. Less fuss. Less attention...(still fed and watered daily) All of a sudden I am going out to find eight eggs in the coop daily. What the heck has happened? Anyone? Today, these beauties. (Pic) Why are they NOW laying after 2 years of nothing much...and in the harsh of winter!?

They were getting too many treats (even the good greens and vegetable scraps) and not enough healthy food( chicken feed). I have had the same problem. Even though it seems like the treats are healthy greens and veggies, it still causes a decline in egg production if they get too much. The commercial chicken feed is specially formulated so that the chickens get exactly what they need. Then we go and mess it up because we give them treats and so they eat less of the commercial feed because they are filling up on the goodies. It results in fewer eggs.

 

[karenerwin]

4 eggs for me today.

 

[bruceha2000]

I forgot to say: 3 eggs today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

9 here broke one in my pocket main coop by the way just have 18 pullets now 2 cockerel but 5 still in molt another 4 not old enough me thinks lost track there

 

[pennyJo1960]

only 6 from my main coop 2 from silky land