I'm quite peeved right now.
Of 28 laying girls I'm lucky to be getting a dozen eggs a day. Yesterday I got ten and today isn't looking any better, despite the main flock having been locked in their coop and run (no free-ranging) today as a test. It's pathetic.
46 chickens:
5 roosters,
4 chicks,
9 girls too young to lay yet,
and the rest on welfare!
Anyone else having a dry spell lately or am I just unlucky? :-/
-Technodoll aka Frustrated, Egg-less Mama Hen
Yep, dry spell here!
ReplyDelete9 hens, 7 laying (ones a Mummy and ones a chick!), but only 2 eggs today :(. I was quite excited to have got 4 yesterday!
It's been raining like you wouldn't believe here in the UK, maybe that's put them off.
I miss having eggs worth carrying the egg basket out for.
Hugs, Sarah x
We are doing OK.
ReplyDeleteSome days they almost all lay an egg, then there are the days that about half of them lay.
The weather plays a BIG part in how many eggs are laid.
Hope you get more eggs soon!
The Chicken Keepers
thechickenkeepers.blogspot.com
Well, both my dogs started rabidly blowing their coats a couple days ago, so something is in the air...
ReplyDeleteWith a slight break in the extreme heat my girls have picked up again. They are pushing 30-40 eggs a day, which is about half the ladies.
ReplyDeleteI still don't get enough for my customers and have had several new walk-ups to the front door wanting to buy eggs. Had to turn most of them away.
~~Matt~~
Sorry :( Hopefully they will do better being cooped but that's not the point of free-range, is it?
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