Category Archives: Farming

Egg Counts moved to own page

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Yesterday I began a new page with the egg counts. See it here .

It’s a work in progress. The first page is a list of all pages with counts, and I have them named by month, so all egg counts are on monthly grouped pages, with the format, currently, similar to how I put the egg counts in this weblog as posts, in the dotted border box … but all formatting will be changed sooner than later probably, as I put in more data and see how better to arrange it.

So as it goes, I only have one page listed right now, this current month, and only the past week or so of counts. Once I get more formatting decided then I’ll add more data.

Thanks to WP 1.5 for this functionality using “Pages” :)

The current months link will also be on the side bar. Find the basic egg report link on the headers right navigation menu too.

Eggs for Feb 23 2005

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Today we have, at this point: 4:57 PM, 8 eggs. Today we got a green egg, yesterday we did not. We got our biggest count yesterday of the year without the contribution of Hawklady. So today she has laid, an additional Leghorn has laid, as well as 5 others as we had yesterday (whether or not these are the same 5 from yesterday, since there are 8 Leghorns, 5 laid yesterday, 6 laid today, do the probability possibilities yourself ;) ). Alas the brownies are the slackers today. Only 2 eggs so far. Yesterday we had 5 brown eggs by this point. As one could see by the numbers, add up todays eggs, and add in the possible other brown layers that we KNOW have laid, I’d have a full dozen today IF they had laid. So we had a white egg late yesterday, will we have one around 5:30PM, or will she hold it over for tomorrow morning? Or is she not going to be an every day layer. Time will tell! :)

(See the egg report link on the side bar near the top for the current egg report month, or choose the link at the top of the page for a list of the reports available.)

Eggs for Feb 22 2005

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Eggs for 2-22-2005

9:00 AM – 1 Brown
9:15 AM – 1 White
9:30 AM – 2 White
11:40 AM- 3 Brown
PM – 1 White
PM – 1 Brown
4:30 PM – 1 White (freshly just laid!)
Order gotten in:

BWWWBBBWB

Total: 10

4:40pm Update: We have 10 eggs so far today. That’s our HIGHEST count of the year, and we didn’t get a green egg today (we may or may not still get one).

That’s 5 white eggs, and 5 brown eggs. So more than half the leghorns laid again today, and only 1 brown layer and the 1 green layer didn’t lay — that would also mean that, to include the number of Leghorns that didn’t lay, only 3 Leghorns didn’t lay today. Whoooppeeee! :grin:

Eggs for Feb 21 2005

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Eggs for 2-21-2005

8:30 AM – 2 Brown
9:30 AM – 2 White
10:15 AM – 1 White, 1 Brown
PM – 1 White
4:45 PM – 1 Brown (nice and warm!)

Gotten in this order:

BBWWWBWB

Total Thus Far: 8

It’s an overcast/foggy/rainy day. It’s not raining right now though. The egg production has been good. One brown egg a day has been kind of cracked or really cracked. I think it’s the same hen. So just one is showing a need for extra calcium — I have to go find my box of hen supplies that has some of the “A” stuff in it. [it's buried in the garage somewhere. :( ]

Afternoon Update: I got another egg from the Leghorns, that’s the 4th white egg today, the highest white egg count of 2005! Way to go old ladies! That’s 50% production from the White Leghorns.