How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[fuzzi]

Three here, also.

And all in the same nest box...

 

[Baker1181]

3 today. Had another one start laying Wednesday. 3 of 8 laying now.

 

[Ponypoor]

7 today, 3 blue from the 3 Azur, 2 pink from two of the Silkies, 1 tan/olive from Rose, and a huge surprise from my 7yr old Penelope. She hasn’t laid an egg since April!

I am toying with the idea of popping old Penelope’s egg under my broody silkie along with a couple of the other silkies. Not sure if it would be fertile but I do know my Polish Roo has bred my silkies.

 

[chrissynemetz]

1 today.

 

[Bac2wild]

4 yesterday

 

[Chopper923]

YOLK,

So I did this last week, with the exception of adding a little salt to each. (I read that on multiple sites that the salt will help keep the yoke from thickening and changing its texture. Supposedly you can use sugar, too.) I took them out of the freezer, thawed them in fridge overnight, and tries to use them yesterday. The salt trick did NOT work. Yoke was thick and rubbery. I ate two anyways, and they tasted fine, but I do not think the rest of my family will care for them since they prefer over easy eggs. I cooked up the rest for my chickens who could use some extra protein due to molting. I can't see that doing eggs this way will work for adding to recipes, like batters and such?

When I froze these eggs, I also took a couple of dozen and lightly scrambled them, put them in a Ziploc, and froze them. I hope they cook up well.

Any advice?

* YOLK, YOLK, YOLK
(not yoke, lol)

 

[WingsysRoost]

Three eggs yesterday. Four eggs on the night before that. Most of mine are still molting or finishing up molt. I'm pretty sure Grumpy is back to laying daily or every other day, at least, as I see her in the nest box fairly consistently.

 

[Brooks_]

1.
Molt, age, shorter days, and recent stressors are really putting a hurt on production,

 

[Tstraub]

Just one today. I still have about 3 dozen fresh and 5 dozen water glassed on hand to get through the slow season

 

[Smokerbill]

Got 7 eggs today, and they're about out of layer feed. Need to run to the hardware store and buy a bag tomorrow morning. I'm going to start writing down the date I open each new bag from now on so I will know exactly how much feed they're going through.

I bought the last bag on October 8, but there was still some feed left over from the last bag. So that means they're going through 50# of feed in somewhere between 3 or 4 weeks.

So to estimate, 50# divided by 8 chickens equals 6.25 pounds for each one. Divide 6.25# by 25 days (my best guess) means they're averaging 1/4 pound of food per day each, which I believe is just about where it should be. I'll start keeping better track of things so I know for sure how much they're eating.

So how much are my eggs costing me??? $22 for a bag of feed, probably averaging 6.5 eggs per day. $22 divided by 25 (days) equals 88 cents worth of feed per day, divided by 6.5 (eggs per day)... 13.54 cents per egg, or about $1.63 per dozen. Guess that's not too bad for farm fresh eggs!