JustLook
Chirping
- May 30, 2020
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These ladies have been champs, FAR exceeding expectations for egg production. I have had 9 eggs a day from 9 white leghorns almost daily with maybe 1 or two days a week I will get 8. And they are almost always done laying by 9am. So it makes this next part that much more puzzling. With no changes to diet or access to water:
7/17 9 eggs
7/18 9 eggs
7/19 9 eggs but took all day
7/20 4 eggs
7/21 5 eggs
7/22 6 eggs
7/23 6 eggs
7/24 7 eggs, one feather
7/25 7 eggs
Just the one feather so no molting. Yet. And too early right?
I am not. NOT concerned about egg production, this is fine! I do NOT expect more daily than maybe 6,7,8 and on rare days maybe 9 eggs from a flock of this size once settled into adulthood. It's the sudden drop that made me wonder what's happening and it's my first flock. I do not want to miss any lessons.
7/17 9 eggs
7/18 9 eggs
7/19 9 eggs but took all day
7/20 4 eggs
7/21 5 eggs
7/22 6 eggs
7/23 6 eggs
7/24 7 eggs, one feather
7/25 7 eggs

I am not. NOT concerned about egg production, this is fine! I do NOT expect more daily than maybe 6,7,8 and on rare days maybe 9 eggs from a flock of this size once settled into adulthood. It's the sudden drop that made me wonder what's happening and it's my first flock. I do not want to miss any lessons.

- They appear happy and healthy.
- Other than a noticeable drop in food consumption on the 19th and 20th, they are eating normally.
- There was a week at the very beginning of the month where they did not have access to their usual run...
- During that same period of time they had less access to grit.
- I put something in the coop under their preferred roost that was a little wobbly right around the 18th or 19th but it was removed a few days later.
- I did use light this past winter if that helps...
- We have bears, coyote, fox, raccoon, possums, all manner of predators that might have scared the crap out of them one night and maybe they are just still recovering from it!
