Panhandler80
Songster
Yall please tell me if I'm looking at this wrong, but I don't think I am. I have 21 birds. For some reason, I was thinking that during peak laying, I'd be looking at 16-18 eggs. Right now I'm getting 12 almost every day, occasionally 11. When I realized they are at 25 weeks of age as of yesterday, I got to thinking... I should (in my novice mind, anyway) bet getting more eggs than that. However, when I consulted the hatchery's published egg laying capacity for each breed... perhaps I am almost at capacity.
If you average their published Low/High number, and apply that number to my quantity of birds, then I would be looking at an average of 246 eggs / chicken / year. That equates to 5,1720 eggs / year. That divided by 365 is a fourteen eggs / day.
Looks like only one or two might not be laying at this point. I'm getting 12 / day, and if each breed lays an average of what they published, I guess 13-15 would make perfect sense. Although, I guess there will be periods of much less (molting, dead of winter, etc) and the spring / early / mid summer they should be maybe a touch more than even 15.
If you average their published Low/High number, and apply that number to my quantity of birds, then I would be looking at an average of 246 eggs / chicken / year. That equates to 5,1720 eggs / year. That divided by 365 is a fourteen eggs / day.
Looks like only one or two might not be laying at this point. I'm getting 12 / day, and if each breed lays an average of what they published, I guess 13-15 would make perfect sense. Although, I guess there will be periods of much less (molting, dead of winter, etc) and the spring / early / mid summer they should be maybe a touch more than even 15.
Low | High | Average | Weighted | ||||
Barred Rock | 1 | 0.047619 | 200 | 280 | 240 | 11.43 | |
RSL / Cin Queen | 3 | 0.142857 | 250 | 320 | 285 | 40.71 | |
Speckled Sussex | 1 | 0.047619 | 180 | 240 | 210 | 10.00 | |
Dominique | 2 | 0.095238 | 180 | 260 | 220 | 20.95 | |
RI White | 1 | 0.047619 | 220 | 280 | 250 | 11.90 | |
Austra White | 1 | 0.047619 | 220 | 280 | 250 | 11.90 | |
White Leghorn | 1 | 0.047619 | 220 | 300 | 260 | 12.38 | |
Brown Leghorn | 1 | 0.047619 | 230 | 300 | 265 | 12.62 | |
BSL | 1 | 0.047619 | 200 | 280 | 240 | 11.43 | |
EE | 7 | 0.333333 | 200 | 280 | 240 | 80.00 | |
Welsummer | 2 | 0.095238 | 200 | 280 | 240 | 22.86 | |
21 | 246.19 | / Year / Chicken | |||||
5170.00 | eggs / year | ||||||
14.16 | eggs / day |