I got one of those light colored eggs today. It was the one that was cracked and ended up buried under a tomato plant. I wonder what causes them to be light sometimes?
A couple of the girls took a break so five eggs today. I'm starting to accumulate a second dozen for my neighbor to buy this week. Three weeks of egg sales (6 dozen) pay for the monthly chicken feed, and I still have eggs to eat myself.
Got a full load today, 7 from seven girls. One looks like it was cracked internally, then repaired before it came out. I'm pretty sure it came from the girl at the bottom of the pecking order.
When I went out at 8:30 last night to close the coop up for the night I took a look at the nest box and was surprised with egg #7 for the day. And it was a WHOPPER!
The egg in the middle is the typical x-large size I get, 65 grams. The one on the right, laid today, is unusually smaller than...
Today, 6 good ones and one sorta soft one broken in the nest. Oh well...
Just let the neighbor know I have a couple dozen ready for sale and she's picking them up later. Sweet!
Six eggs yesterday morning...
and 5 eggs today, so far.
My chickens have laid roughly 115 pounds of eggs so far this year...
800 eggs X 2.3 oz. each = 1840 oz. / 16 = 115 pounds
And I think that number is low because a lot more eggs were heavier than 2.3 oz than lighter.
The girls have eaten...