AM – 1 White 2.1 ounces
PM – 1 White 1.8 ounces
Total Eggs: 2
We are home this Sunday morning. Still drippy nosed and such, with Dh getting worse, me getting better.
About the hens:
On Saturday, yesterday, January 16, 2005 — there was an egg in the SuperYard, underneath the nest box (which hangs on the side of the pen, enough room to squish underneath it if you are a scrappy leghorn hen size). It was dirty, from being on the ground, in a pen that needed to be moved for a couple of days already.
We had no other eggs that day.
Today, since we are home, we did move both pens and re-water them during feeding time. In the SuperYard nest box, was a nice big white egg. I weighed it on my digital scale and it’s 2.1- ounces. That’s in the Large/Extra-Large realm of egg measurements “officially in the US”. I say that since it was flipping back and forth from 2.0 to 2.1, so it’s hedging towards less than but not totally surefully, 2.1 ounces.
As it goes, that’s a good size. Glad to take it!
I like measuring egg weights. I started doing that last year and recording things in a journal book manually. I didn’t do every egg, just sometimes. Like in April and May I recorded most of it.
2.1 is a general nice size for a veteran hen. That was a low norm for them last year. 2.167 oz. is the “extra large” rate. So that’s why I noted the fluctuation of the weight on today’s white egg, and why I said it’s between two sizes. My scale doesn’t have that many decimal points either.
Most white eggs in 2004 were Extra Large or Jumbo. Jumbo is 2.417 and up. Most of course were just under 2.4 with some over that. So 2.0, 2.1, were the low end, 2.2, 2.3 the middle, and 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 the upper. More lower than upper, but more middle overall.
I didn’t record the egg weights all year. I did well for awhile, then stopped. That’s normal for me. I lost interest in it. Too methodically, routine, it just got really old.
I am finding that my way of doing things is to discover a way to do something neat, then set it up to work well, then mangage someone else into the position of doing, check up on them, then let them just go with it if I think them capable.
Seeing as I have such a small labor pool in the family, very young yet, it’s been ALL ME. Entrapenorialness doesn’t work so well without a labor pool of capable folks to draw from. Aha! I find that I do better directing a job in the house as well. Me pittle around, they do. Me support and help a bit, but mostly they do it under my guidance. It’s not the same as “ablility to delegate” It somewhat that, but not. I mean, I can’t just “delegate”. I must create, setup, run, control, THEN hand over piece by piece with oversight and THEN say “It’s yours” eventually.
I never knew that about myself until a couple of months ago when my 8-year-old-boy became much more useful around the house. 🙂
So somehow this will figure into recording a full season of eggs and sizes — 🙂 Team effort. Not “just me”.
Year before last, 2003, I created log sheets on the computer and printed them out. I had configuration for the possible eggs each day, and X in the box if got one. Left Blank if not. Then I could do things on that sheet too, for at a glance knowlege of how many eggs we got that period of time, and how many eggs we had on-hand to use or sell.
I just couldn’t stand that method season two. It wasn’t half-bad, it was good. But I didn’t figure on how to make it better, so abandoned it to a fully manually written journal.
That was more interactive and worked, and I did different things throughout the season, but it didn’t facilitate the same “at a glance” knowledge as previous years data had going for it. But also it was contained in a nice book, not on floaty-away-paper.
I also tried to update my Hen Report weblog with all the egg counts and “interesting” things that occured that are good for me to reflect on later, and anyone else can read if they want. But I ditched that format when I went to WP, and haven’t decided what to do with that data, bring it in here, or leave it there for posterity, or turn it into a self contained WP weblog, as it was an MT one before.
I do think I’ll manage to squiggle it into this weblog somehow. I’ll do some special page category thang and have it out of here, just on the side bar as a link, with counts a sub special category that’ll show on the sidebar.
Just means I have to institute that through coding. Not hard, just takes time. Tedious due to time.
So that’s the housekeeping I need to do. As well, I have my church’s website over my head needing much input. I’ve a document to un-Word, and code and split into several pages … and that is cooling my heels about it. I’m needing to get my ‘puter here back to a table, so I don’t feel so compressed. It compresses some of my HTML/CSS/PHP Webmaster Creativity. The stuff I need to implement MORE and do MORE where I NEED to. 🙂