Who had to BUY eggs this week? mad mad mad....

[Preservation Acres]

I have only one hen laying--my ex-battery rescued white leghorn. They're all molting and taking a vacation.

So yeah, I'm buying those pathetic grocery eggs.

 

[Medicine Man]

I got 22 eggs yesterday. From 39 girls.

 

[queenbeezz]

I'm getting so many eggs that we have a rule now, come to my house and you have to leave with at least a dozen! Granted we are in Florida where the daily temps are still in the 80's but I think it has to do with the lights in the coop. I give my girls about 14 hours of light per day. They free range from about 7am until dark. Lights come on in the coop about 5:30, go out at 7 and come on again at dark until about 7:30. I am getting about a doz eggs a day from 20 hens ( some are still too young and others are just lazy). We eat quiche, omlets, and anything else I can dream up to use up eggs.
I'm so bad that I even stop people in the grocery to tell them I have fresh eggs for sale. My son won't shop with me anymore. He put his foot down when I wanted to send eggs to the coach!

 

[jjthink]

While I have lights in the coop I turn them off at approximately normal time of dark for whatever time of year it is. This is so their bodies can rest during the 'shorter' days of the year, thus hopefully preventing early burnout and death. I buy organic free range eggs from the store during those times of year (not likely ideal conditions for the birds involved, unlike my birds, but it seems to be the closest I can get to humane..).
JJ

 

[woodmort]

I've got over 30 dozen in the three refrigerators we have--kids are taking them home on Sat. Averaging 2.5 doz a day and no place near FL.

 

[windtryst]

I had to buy eggs...I have bantams, so I need two for every egg a recipe calls for. They are moulting, the young ones have not started to lay yet, so for the first time in a year, I have had to buy eggs

 

[teach1rusl]

My answer is to bake less!!

I too have a small flock, so between two youngsters and my molters, I'm only getting about 5 eggs a week right now when I should be getting 3 dozen. But that's okay, I still love my little temporary free loaders

 

[pgpoultry]

I'm not buying eggs because I'm stubborn, but have only one of 12 hens laying....so nobody in the family is getting their usual omelette, cake, fried egg or eggs to take home.

So why are they not laying?.... 8 of them think they are too young ( one 9 week old ranging to 3 Brahma pullets who are over 30 weeks and STILL think they are too young). One post broody and one who is a law unto herself, a HUGE Brahma hen who sleeps with the dog and probably thinks she is one.

So very few eggs, but I trust (hope, pray) that in the Spring I will be knee deep in eggs.....but for now.....I have one elderly, grumpy warren who lays 6 days out of 7, so she is my only egg supply.

 

[mulewagon]

I did buy a couple of dozen eggs yesterday, to devil for Thanksgiving. My husband asked, "Don't you have eggs in the fridge?" I said, "Yes, but those are too fresh! I need old eggs so they'll peel well!" He was a bit bewildered

 

[spish]

i have 60+ hens and today when i go shopping i will have to buy eggs! disaster. for over a month now we've only had one egg here..one egg there and now thats stopped alltogether. we've gone through the usual checklist and ruled out as much as we can think of (disease, inadequate diet, stress, age, moults etc) and can only attribute it to the long dark hours. but would that really stop ALL the chickens laying totally??????

i'm this ---> >--< close to selling all but my few young poults which will hopefully start laying in the spring.