Keeping track of eggs??

[Dixiedoodle]

I hope this is where this belongs..IF not, please move it...

Do any of you keep records on daily eggs laid? What do you use to record your information on/in? Other than # of eggs and date, what information do you include? Weather? Breed? Hen? size of egg? color?

I have been increasingly interested in who is laying, what effect the weather might play? Free range? confined all day...etc. But I am not really sure how to record it..

Thank you for any suggestions, ideas, information! Dixie

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have a egg chart. It has a place for my chickens names and if they layed an egg that day I check it off. Then I have a place were I can add up all the eggs I got total that week. And I also have a spot for feed ... how much was it ... and what kind etc. And I have a spot for eggs sales. ETC.

 

[Siler]

You know I've wondered the same exact thing myself. Mrs. Fluffy Puffy could you possibly share this chart with us and others? I usually mentally acknowledge who laid what and when but that's impossible to keep track of.

 

[OutInTheStiks]

We keep track of eggs laid each day but not who laid them. We just use a calendar and write in the number for that day. At the end of the week we add up the total and write it on the calendar as well. Its not very specific, but it does let us look at general trends.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Okay, I'll have to take a picture of it!!! Just a minute ...

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Here is the "Egg Chart." :

 

[gritsar]

I just use a cheap spiral notebook, a page for each month, # of eggs rec'd, # sold and whom to.

 

[MimiChick]

I use an excel spreadsheet with each chicken's name, the color egg she lays and what time (approximately) she layed the egg. It has a column for daily totals and a count at the bottom for monthly totals for each hen - then a monthly grand total. I have a separate worksheet for each month.
I only have 4 girls right now and since I've been out of work, I'm mostly home to see what time they each lay. But you could just as easily do it with a simple check mark instead of the time. The nice thing about using excel is that you can add to the spreadsheet and modify it for your own specific needs; such as eggs sold, feed costs, etc.

 

[they'reHISchickens]

If you do a search for Steve's ChickenTracker, it's a free program that some very nice wifey did for her hubby to track chickens.
I keep track of who lays what ( so far as we can tell them apart) so I had to add some columns with different colors but it's an excel sheet so it was easy to add what i needed.
I think it's more important to keep track of molting periods because they seem to last FOREVER and I wish we had tracked ours last year. it's tough to keep the daily list but we are trying because when you have room for only a few, you do have to have some fair basis for culling and my memory isn't what it used to be!