I get 13 to 17 eggs per day, every once in awhile I get 18 to 19 on higher count days but not often and every once in awhile I get 12 eggs a day. Usually I get a really high count day right after a really low count one. But I guess if you average all the days out it is 15 eggs a day from 21 chickens.
Mine are slowing down though, I did average 17 a day for awhile. I think as they reach a year they start slowing down. My 16 month old chickens lay less then they used to the first year that they started especially my 2 BR's and 1 older EE. I imagine the 16 almost 1 year old hens will slow down when they get closer to a year and a half too. Which will be winter time.
I really need to figure out a good rotation schedule for my chickens and typing it all out here makes me wonder if maybe I should get more chicks to bring up my winter egg supply?
One of the main reasons I am waiting is if I add more chicks I need to also get rid of more chickens. It wasn't so hard "taking care of" Daisy, the mean WR, but I really care for these others, especially my very first ones. I need to work on not getting attached, so hard.
Our dog is now free in the yard and is no longer on a runner leash and so the squirrel population has gone down. She actually achieved her life long goal and caught a squirrel. Poor squirrel, I kinda felt sorry for it. We were having them in the run all the time, but not since Maxie has been scaring them all away or catching them.
Honestly unless you are planning on having a plywood board underneath them, they probably wouldn't work as a run roof, they have to be nailed down at all the edges and probably quite a bit in the middle, its both floppy and heavy so I could see major sagging and possible collapse if not nailed down to a solid, flat piece.
