Lots Of Eggs!

[RyderTheChicken]

I forgot to collect the eggs for about a week (lazy me) and I went out today to collect and my 22 hens must’ve been working pretty hard because there’s a lot of eggs

 

[gtaus]

OK, really, how could you "forget" to collect your eggs from 22 hens for a whole week? I don't know how cold it is in Alaska where you live, but here in northern Minnesota it is below freezing so I collect eggs 2-3x per day. Do you have a heated barn?

Although I enjoy letting my hens out of their coop in the morning, and locking them up again at night, I would like to know how is it that you can go a whole week without checking on food and water? I think there must be more to your story than you are telling.
Time to fess up! Back to you for "the rest of the story."

 

[RyderTheChicken]

Ok so I have been watering and feeding them and letting me out every morning but I look at the eggs and I think tomorrow I’ll do it

 

[RyderTheChicken]

And we have a heated barn or I would be collecting them like twice a day

 

[gtaus]

I would love to have a heated barn. This is my first year with laying hens, so I'm still excited every morning to let the hens out and harvest the eggs a couple times a day.

And, by the way, even if the hens don't need a heated barn, at my age, I would really appreciate it. Although I worry about the chickens surviving the winter, I wonder about myself, too.

 

[feathermaid]

What are you going to do with all those eggs? Do you sell them, or have lots of friends and family to share them with?

 

[drumstick diva]

Do you donate the eggs to food kitchens, etc.

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Wow! That is a lot of eggs!

 

[RyderTheChicken]

we mostly sell them but a food kitchen would be a good idea!