Today's temperature = # of eggs.

[chickenn@@b]

it's been super cold here, unusually so for VA. My 2 older girls haven't laid much at all the last few weeks but my 4 new girls are laying like champs. I'm getting 3-4 eggs a day, mostly from the younger girls. I suppose that's normal?

 

[audiomilk]

No eggs because we have no chickens..YET (but soon). Today high and low 73 and 62 respectively

 

[terrapin]

It's raining and 40F here on the Eastern Shore of Ravenland. Nevertheless we collected 12 eggs from 13 hens. The girls are 20 weeks old today and thus far have produced over 6 dozen eggs since Jan 16,2013.

 

[macombcochick]

Temps in the 30's, mix of 3 inches snow followed by sleet and freezing rain. Schools closed and power outages. My 2 ISA reds, and 1 buff orp each layed an egg today. My other buff orp is in a heavy molt- feeding sun flower seeds and leftover meat scraps along with feed to help her through.

 

[boyd2011]

15 degrees 5 eggs out of 12 hens. A few days it has only been 3. Still not bad for these temps

 

[cluck5]

Hello: We've had -34 for a low for the last week, with daytime highs reaching a comfortable (just kidding, brrrrrrr) -27. We've been getting 1 egg a day from each of our EE's. My Jersey Giant hens started laying in November, then promptly stopped as the weather got cold, but every once and a while, surprise me with a brown egg. I do have supplemental lighting, but I am thinking that my EE's would lay through the winter without the additional lighting. This post was a great idea, I hope to read about other member's egg laying statistics! Here are pics of my EE's, Ginger on the left, of course the eggs and Marmalade on the right.

 

[bruceha2000]

Sat: Low: -2, High: +12 - 6 eggs
Sun: Low: +3, High: +15 - 6 eggs

Bruce

 

[bruceha2000]

Laying Reliably
Silver Laced Wyandotte @ 9:30pm
Easter Egger @ 10:00pm

i agree with Bruce last two nites it warmed up to 10 degrees and i got 4 eggs each morning from my 8 girls last week it was negative 10 and all 8 were laying eggs. Does anyone use lights? heat of any kind? i do not and never will but people i know that do their chickens stopped laying completely..

I have a light on starting at 4:30 AM. Small wattage pointing in from outside the coop (it is in a barn). Put their 250W brooder light at ceiling height (~7') because my wife was worrying about the girls when it was heading toward -20F. She had it on Thursday night and we only got 1 egg Friday. MORE PROOF of the theory!

. Of course, I really have no idea how much heat it added to the coop, it certainly isn't close enough to the ground to feel heat there and doesn't get to the roosts.

6 degrees, coldest it has been in the last 20 years, my 10 seperate red sex-links ALL, BEGAN laying eggs. One from EACH!!

More proof!

disappointed in the girls today - 4 eggs out of 5 barred rocks, 5 welsummers and one white jersey giant. It went up to 14 today after having lows of around -25 most of the week. I have lights on for 13.5 hours a day and the coop does have a small heater to keep it just above freezing at nest box height. They averaged 8 eggs a day, just like usual, all through the week when coop temps were around 10 to 12. I did clean out the coop this afternoon so maybe that threw a few of them off. I don't think temps matter very much.

Ah, your were SO supporting the theory ... until that last line

do not be disapointed in the girls can you imagine how cold there bums get when they lay an egg ?

But did you note that there were many MORE eggs when it was freeze your tail feathers off cold??

..... of course the eggs ....

Pretty shiny blue green eggs!

My wife said one of the EEs was so excited about morning oatmeal yesterday that she ran out of the coop and laid her egg right by the treat! Guess she forgot she was working on something else.

Bruce

 

[Tammy N]

22 eggs again today yard is muddy so they are a little dirty. 10 Jumbo Quail eggs today and no EE egg.

 

[cluck5]

Sometimes I think our chickens eat better than us! Nobody brings me breakfast in bed. It's been so cold the chickens haven't left the coop for what seems weeks, so I take pitty on them and feed them oatmeal, give them leftovers, sunflower seeds, etc...It's the least I can do as they do leave us those pretty blue eggs as thanks!!