How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Ponypoor]

10 yesterday and 9 today, but one doesn't quite count...

as it was this fairy egg;

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soft shelled just on the poop table sitting in the sand. It is the size of a marble. I'm sure it's from Custard, I haven't seen an egg from her in days. Don't really know what causes this. It just is what it is I guess.

Blanche laid her first egg today!! I felt SO BAD for her when I went to go get it, it was SO bloody -- it was a BIG first egg omg. Her poor little vent She got treats today for being such a good girl.

My husband got a pic of her right before -- she was nosing about, picking her spot - she's adorable.

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26 weeks old -- she's the dear who is the Pox carrier. It never spread to anyone else, or it did and no one else showed any symptoms. She has a little scar on her beak from it. But she is a hale and lovely girl, quite quiet and shy. SO big too. A nice brown color egg!

And such a lovely colour she is too.

Congratulations on your first egg Blanche.

 

[Ponypoor]

Got 2 eggs yesterday, one with a small hole (not in the picture) and another way smaller than usual, that coin is 2.8 cm in diameter.

A tiny fairy egg. Did it have a small yolk or just the whites?

 

[Ponypoor]

14 eggs today.

They are all over the map lately with regards to egg counts.

Found the one blue egg on the floor just as I walk in the barn! Another lucky egg! Not sure how I didn’t step on it!

 

[Winderdear]

3 eggs today, from Août, Helmi and Brelly!

Helmi’s eggs continue to have very heavy bloom, so that they look a bit pinkish purple. It’s a nice addition to my brown and cream eggs from the hens.



The bounty overfloweth! There are two more pullet eggs I can’t manage to stuff in santa’s belly, lol. I guess we’ll have scrambled eggs and rosemary toast for Christmas breakfast

 

[BigBlueHen53]

11 eggs today, 6 were blue! First time the blue have outnumbered the brown.

Got 2 eggs yesterday, one with a small hole (not in the picture) and another way smaller than usual, that coin is 2.8 cm in diameter.

Ah, a fairy egg!

Oh it's not important if she is laying - I don't mind her being a freeloader at all <3 If she doesn't have the sense to eat the oyster shell bits I've got on offer then she's just a little derpy and she can be derpy, it's alright

But thanks for the info - now I know why she's stopped. That or the daylight hours?

Merry Christmas everyone <3

The calcium pill can help because sometimes they don't absorb the calcium properly from the oyster shell and they kind of need to be "kick-started." Trying to push out soft-shell eggs is very difficult and I understand can even result in vent prolapse. The calcium will help her on both counts - help her to expel any soft-shell eggs she may have inside by strengthening her contractions, and help her to form proper eggs going forward.

 

[Ponypoor]

3 eggs today, from Août, Helmi and Brelly!

Helmi’s eggs continue to have very heavy bloom, so that they look a bit pinkish purple. It’s a nice addition to my brown and cream eggs from the hens.

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The bounty overfloweth! There are two more pullet eggs I can’t manage to stuff in santa’s belly, lol. I guess we’ll have scrambled eggs and rosemary toast for Christmas breakfast

Beautiful eggs

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh it's not important if she is laying - I don't mind her being a freeloader at all <3 If she doesn't have the sense to eat the oyster shell bits I've got on offer then she's just a little derpy and she can be derpy, it's alright

But thanks for the info - now I know why she's stopped. That or the daylight hours?

Merry Christmas everyone <3

Make sure you have Vit D with it, calcium needs the D to process it properly.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Make sure you have Vit D with it, calcium needs the D to process it properly.

Absolutely! I think I did recommend Calcium Citrate +D3, or Citracal.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[BigBlueHen53]

11 eggs today!
Six were blue. First time blues have outnumbered browns, yay!