Suddenly overrun in eggs again!

[gritsar]

My big girls are going nuts!
I checked in the coop first thing this morning and there was 4 eggs + a broken one (rarely happens, but apparently the girl squished it getting out of the nest).
Just checked again and every nestbox (4) is full, plus in one there is a hen facing out and another hen on top of her facing in.

 

[gryeyes]

There's been a lot of cackling and singing of the Egg Song here, today.

I'm kind of embarrassed that I didn't realize until a couple days ago that the slightly smaller green eggs I've been gathering were NOT Rebecca's at all, but her egg-daughter's, Samantha my first GrandChick. Rebecca is in full molt.

Now I've got to figure out who is laying the small, white eggs. Some banty pullet, but I can't remember which little gal might be the white
egg layer.

 

[gritsar]

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I'm going thru the same thing in the baby coop - trying to figure out which egg belongs to who. I know my turkens are laying pretty almost mauve colored eggs, the SFs are laying cream colored, one of the EEs is now laying (greenish-blue), but everybody else, I don't have a clue.

The meaties eggs are easy to identify, they are HUGE.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Ok, well I got the timer set up Thursday and checked it this a.m. at 5 before heading out to the gym before work and it was on and all the chickens were off the roost and scratching and eating....now I can wait on those eggs, knowing they are just around the corner....

 

[crazyhen]

I got 8 eggs from 18 hens. Some are pullets but also the older hens are coming out of molt. There combs are nice and red so maybe it will not be to long. I will be surely overun with eggs. I don't sell them either, there are too many families about that are having it hard in these hills and I give most of them away. More to give away would be great. Yeh!!! I have some hens that are in their 2nd year and one her third year. I get an egg from the 3 year old at least twice a week. She is a Brahma mix. My very first hen.

Gloria Jean

 

[gritsar]

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Yeah, my brahmas are great layers even though they are almost three years old. While I need to sell some eggs to pay for feed, I discount the cost of eggs ($1.00/doz.) to the other officers at the police dept. Round here, cops don't get paid well at all, and it's tough for the younger officers to raise families on their pay.

 

[Happy Chooks]

My girls are starting to come out of their molts! I got extra eggs yesterday from my buttercup (the first to molt) and one of my BCM's.

 

[gritsar]

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[pips&peeps]

Up to 27 today.....

 

[gritsar]

pips&peeps :

Up to 27 today.....