How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[JimWWhite]

17 from our 19 GCs!!!

 

[JimWWhite]

Funny story... Yesterday I started working early on adding a nesting box to the side of our 4'x8'x4' coop. It was just going to be a simple nesting box about 40"x13"x16" and connected to the side of the coop with a cleat. I'd cut a hole so the Gals could go in from the inside of the coop. Well, Teresa came out about an hour after I got going and asked what I was building and I told her. She asked "Where's your plans?". Well, I said "Plan? What plan? I let the wood reveal what it wants to be and I build it. There ain't no plan!". Well, she turned on her heal and stormed off. About an hour later she came back by as I was taking off the panel I'd just put on because something didn't square up and I was cussing and muttering to myself. And she said "It wouldn't have happened if you had a plan!". To which I said "I just didn't interpret correctly what the wood revealed to me at the moment so I ended up with something I didn't want." She stormed off again. Well, by the end of the morning I had it hung on the coop, the hole cut out, and a hinged lid on it. This mornining she called me to tell me that all the hens used the two nesting places in the box and there were 17 eggs when she went out. To that I responded with "I know, that's what the wood revealed to me would happen... "

 

[mxpres]

16/16 today

 

[BrownEggFan]

6 / 6 - First 100% day! YAHOO!!!

 

[Chick CJ]

8/8 yesterday but one was a membrane egg that clearly got stepped on on the way out of the nesting box! She laid it yesterday sometime after 4pm and now she is already in the nesting box again!
CJ

 

[wvgal61]

no eggs from 45+ hens. it's been a slow week. Maybe they are going into molt.

 

[Jen4]

18/25 yesterday and today

 

[mxpres]

15/16 today

 

[geojane42]

First time posting on this thread and doesn't sound like much by comparison but I have to say that I was SO excited when I went out an hour after cleaning the coop this morning to find THREE.... yes THREE eggs in one of the nesting boxes. This is a big deal for us because when we first got our 5 hens about 6 weeks ago, no one was laying. Then we slowly started to get one a day. The two Marans were laying every other day pretty regularly then our little campine/dorking bantum started laying a couple of weeks ago. We were getting 2 a day... once in a while 3 for the past couple of weeks but the Hamburgs weren't doing anything but running away and getting into trouble so I had pretty much made up my mind that they were going on the dinner table. Then the day before yesterday, Bad Girl (the worst Hamburg) decided to lay. And she's been laying every day since! This morning I got two from the Marans and one from Bad Girl. Should have one more from the bantum by now which will make 4 which will be a record!

 

[Tamrajh]

7/19. I must say, we were getting 6 eggs/day and then decided we wanted more, so we added 13 production plant girls to our flock. Now we get 6-7 a day. Whoop ti fricking do. That was the worst $50 I let my husband talk me into spending.