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...
My chickens lay around 150 eggs per month. Selling 6 dozen a month would cover the cost of chicken feed and I'd still have two or three a day for myself.
Six eggs today, and maybe one more but I doubt it.
I sold my first two dozen eggs today! I hadn't planned on selling any but my neighbor texted me wondering if I had any to sell.
I had two dozen nice brown ones in the fridge I was saving to maybe make pickled eggs someday, but selling them...
All seven girls were generous today, giving me 7 eggs. One egg had what looked like either a small break from a peck, or maybe a claw hit it when a hen was rearranging the eggs to her liking.
Either way, it's cooked and ready to eat for my breakfast.
5 today. I've been keeping up with eating their eggs lately. Other than the 2 dozen that I'm saving to make pickled eggs, I have only 3 on the countertop, just enough for a nice little breakfast tomorrow.