Wednesday and Thursday Eggs for Jan 19 and 20

Estimate:

1-20-2005 Egg Count:

8:30 AM – 2 White 1.7 ounces, 2.1 ounces
11:00 AM – 1 White 2.4 ounces
11:45 AM – 1 Brown 1.8 ounces

Total Eggs: 4

Estimate:

1-19-2005 Egg Count:

2 White

Total Eggs: 2
note: 1 egg was frozen when found

Eggs for yesterday and today are a bit confusing.

Yesterday, Wednesday, January 19, 2005, I retrieved 2 white eggs from the SuperYard, the Leghorn pen. One egg was cracked — frozen solid inside. That egg I peeled (easily) and put in a dish for the cats.

The other egg wasn’t frozen.

My guess is that the frozen egg was laid on (moreso later that not) Tuesday … and the non-frozen egg laid early Wednesday morning. Maybe. The non-frozen egg was very cold. The morning was very cold. The nest box has no straw/hay in it so the eggs laid would have no protection from the air temperatures overall.

My thinking is that the one egg was laid on Tuesday late in the daylight hours, and therefore was frozen solid by the time I got to it on Wednesday morning, seeing as the temperatures got down to 18 or so in the hours before Sunrise.

The other egg might then have been laid early, as the sun came up, and the cold temperatures then would have cooled that hot egg down very quickly. I didn’t get the egg until after 9am I think, most likely after 10am.

So that is Wednesday. Sort of. We went out yesterday so have no verification of what was laid the rest of the day. Got home late last night, and having no flashlight –didn’t check the nest boxes.

I was out there this morning at 8:30am, and in the Leghorn’s nest box there were two eggs. Both very cold. Overnight the temperature supposedly didn’t get below freezing. It looks that way in the yard, with no frost around –and the air felt balmy to me when I was out there. I didn’t button up and felt fine. Currently Accuweather is saying it’s 32 F. with a “feels like” temp of 24 F. Yeah, right. Not so! Not here, at any rate.

So the two eggs in the box early this morning are from … ? Yesterday or today. Sigh, we’ll never truly know. I can take a good guess about it later today or tomorrow or the next day though, if other hens are laying now. 🙂

I haven’t weighed the eggs I got yesterday or the ones from this morning. Maybe later, maybe not!

Update 11:15 AM: I just checked the hens and there was a nice big, warm egg in the Leghorn’s nest box. So I weighed it and the other two eggs I got this morning from their box. Measurements in the box at the top of this post.

Update 12:00 PM: I went out to check for eggs again just a little while ago, and decided to move the A-Frame a bit since they had no eggs in their “nest loft” again, and one was found in the corner of the pen that is only findable by sight when the pen is moved … so, I moved the pen, and voila! There was a brown egg. It was in the grass, of course, so very cool. Laid when? Last time we did this was on Tuesday, which was the first time we found a brown egg this way. We didn’t move the pen on Wednesday, so today’s move unveiled an egg from this morning? Or yesterday? Seeing as it didn’t really freeze over night, I’m not entirely sure, but the egg itself was clean with a few dirty streaks which wiped off easily with a damp cloth.

Wednesday and Thursday Eggs for Jan 19 and 20

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