How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[fuzzi]

1 again!!!!

 

[Winderdear]

1 today, from Juin

 

[akroberts1085]

Got 5

 

[Smokerbill]

The girls did better today, 4 eggs in the nest.

 

[african chickens]

6 today

 

[chrissynemetz]

Zero again.

 

[Nym]

0 today, but that's ok.

 

[thistlewick]

So yesterday I had to take my son in for a surgery (he's okay!) and I was gone from 5:30am til 4pm

So I didn't have time to tend nor let the girls out ALL DAY but they are alright in their hen house for a day, it's 206 sq feet (I have 17 girls) plus I was able to watch them throughout the day bc I have 2 cameras set up in there.. chicken TV is fun

So MUCH to my surprise, we got home to 11 eggs! and our FIRST MARAN EGG!

SO -- now is the fun part. Today, they go back to their regular routine. My husband was like "now we find out, if we never see a chocolate egg again, we know she's laying out in the hedge"

Also, I've never had more than 9 eggs yet, so 11 blew my mind.

I am able now, because of autumn, to get in the hedge a decent amount and look around, but I've never found an egg. It's *thick* there in places.

So building the run will be useful in more ways than one -- though I don't think we will ever stop letting them free range, they love it too much and are really quite savvy of hawks now. Blessedly, our crows and blue jays alert to them and the chickens know this and I've witnessed them time and time again run for cover when they need to.

They are *smart* birds.

Also have someone from NC State coming over next week to meet the chickens (we're going to be donating our eggs weekly for their food insecurity program) and also to help me get started with a Dairy cow! Exciting times <3

ceramic eggs X'd out

 

[fuzzi]

So yesterday I had to take my son in for a surgery (he's okay!) and I was gone from 5:30am til 4pm

So I didn't have time to tend nor let the girls out ALL DAY but they are alright in their hen house for a day, it's 206 sq feet (I have 17 girls) plus I was able to watch them throughout the day bc I have 2 cameras set up in there.. chicken TV is fun

So MUCH to my surprise, we got home to 11 eggs! and our FIRST MARAN EGG!

SO -- now is the fun part. Today, they go back to their regular routine. My husband was like "now we find out, if we never see a chocolate egg again, we know she's laying out in the hedge"

Also, I've never had more than 9 eggs yet, so 11 blew my mind.

I am able now, because of autumn, to get in the hedge a decent amount and look around, but I've never found an egg. It's *thick* there in places.

So building the run will be useful in more ways than one -- though I don't think we will ever stop letting them free range, they love it too much and are really quite savvy of hawks now. Blessedly, our crows and blue jays alert to them and the chickens know this and I've witnessed them time and time again run for cover when they need to.

They are *smart* birds.

Also have someone from NC State coming over next week to meet the chickens (we're going to be donating our eggs weekly for their food insecurity program) and also to help me get started with a Dairy cow! Exciting times <3

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ceramic eggs X'd out

Laughing at the X'd eggs

 

[Marle94]

One just now from Flossy. But there was a partial Banty egg shell that was empty when I opened the coop this morning. I guess someone busted it and they ate it. Sis let Jade out of broody Banty jail yesterday and it looked like one of her eggs, light tan.