Still buying store bought eggs....

that's one of the reasons i'm getting MORE chickens this spring.......the other reason, is simply cuz i LOVE chickens and i'm a hatchaholic. anyway, i had to buy store bought eggs last week too! NASTY, tasteless things! i only have 4 girls, and 2 are still faithfully laying! so i guess i should consider myself lucky with that....still getting about 1 egg a day, sometimes none, but sometimes 2. next winter will be different i hope!

 

Can you buy eggs at a local farmer's market?? Then you can have yummy eggs and still support others' flocks.

 

I echo your frustration! I have 6 hens and get 1-2 eggs per day. I have been buying eggs all Winter. I have 3 more chicks (now 5 weeks old) in a brooder and hope Summer will have a lot more eggs! More importantly, I hope next Winter will have more eggs. This past Summer we had a fair number of eggs per day, so Summer wasn't the issue, it's when the weather turns colder and they stop laying that I appreciate having more hens!

 

I hate buying eggs AND chicken feed it's just the most frustrating feeling............

 

I get 3 eggs a day -out of 5 hens... so Guess I am doing okay. One of my girls is a banty who went on strike in fall.

I did buy 7 new chicks - and am hoping to get more eggs... I don't buy store bought often - but had to for holiday baking! I save the girls eggs for my breakfast!

 

right now mine are laying just enough, I can't wait til spring. Some folks have stopped laying all together. Yours will get there, just be patient.

 

We had to buy 2 dozen in November when we had super cold temps and a blizzard. After they got used to it though it is back to 6-8 Eggs a day out of nine hens so not buying eggs now.

 

I have 21 hens and only get 1 or 2 eggs a day and every now and then 4. They are all over 6 months old and I am so ready for the rest of them to start laying. So far we haven't had to buy eggs, but the holiday meals really took a toll on our supply!

ETA: Just had to go buy 18 eggs...grrrr...be careful what you say! LOL!!

 

We have 8 chickens that are now 7 months old . They started laying at about 4 months and worked thier production up to 8 eggs about three times a week with the other days at 6 or 7 eggs . So far this winter they have not slowed down. It'd fairly mild here on the southwest coast of B.C.