How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Ponypoor]

13 eggs here today.

Somehow by magic or levitation, our two mama hens got themselves and babies out of their enclosure and in with "gen. pop" in the big run this morning. We absolutely cannot fathom how they managed that. Then when we opened the gate this afternoon to let everyone out to free range, they brought the bsbies out too. Shrug. They will either survive or not, I guess! It helps that there are two mamas riding herd on them. Good luck, ladies!

I have my mamas and babies out with the gang as soon as I can (weather permitting!), my gang is so used to
Chicks they ignore them. Predators are another story though……

Good luck!

 

[Ponypoor]

I am somewhat unhappy seeing a shell less egg in my chicken coop this morning...grrrrr......what to do now?

3 of the hens are molting, so it is not them pooping that egg.

1 Isa Brown hen - Basil had a thin shell egg last week and I have been giving her Calcium Citrate+D tablet for 4/5 consecutive days now, her eggs was back to almost thick shell like before, but this morning just a membrane holding it....grrrrr

Basil is an Isa Brown and I know very well the reproductive ill health she inherited. I have been watching her with hawk eyes, and here it is the nightmare has finally arrived.

What is there to do, but continue with the calcium table...I checked the tablet has 333mg of calcium and she has 1.5 of it so it is ~450mg.

She gets 4ml of nutrients every week, and sardine 1 a week and 17% protein layer feed.

I had Isa Brown previously started the same and some eventually went down and some took many months until to reached that finally horrible end.

As the calcium tablet did not fix the soft shell egg, then it is reproductive issue.

Now I will increase to 2 tablets =660mg of calcium and pray my brain out.

Thank you for letting me air my distress.

Hoping and praying she will be ok. They do like to worry us don’t they

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have my mamas and babies out with the gang as soon as I can (weather permitting!), my gang is so used to
Chicks they ignore them. Predators are another story though……

Good luck!

They made it back to the brooder coop after their advrntures! One baby on top of mama here, black chick under her wing. DH took this pic.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Winderdear]

2 eggs today, from Août and Juillet

 

[Tookie]

Yesterday I got 11! 5 duck eggs, and 6 chicken eggs! My 10yo laid again.

Today I got 9. 5 duck again, and I got 4 chicken.

 

[pennyJo1960]

13 from my group today! Happy Easter!

 

[akroberts1085]

I got all 6 yesterday. @SkyAJK, sorry to hear about your Basil girl.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Yesterday I got more eggs than we have hens lol meaning we forgot the day before. Whoops lol

 

[EmmaDonovan]