2-13-2005 Egg Count:
9:00 AM – 1 Brown (Australorp freshly laid, “caught in the act” 🙂 )
1:45PM – after arriving home from morning church:
3 Brown, 1 White
Total Thus Far: 5
I’m fairly confident that the hens are all getting into Spring Laying now. It’ll be a slow upward moving trend, but it’s going fine so far. I could be wrong. Some of the Leghorns were laying so well back in January when Hawklady laid one, then two brown eggs were laid. Right then white production seemed to be coming in upward momentum, but then halted just as those colored eggs did.
So here we have at least one Leghorn laying every day, if not it being a couple of them alternating days.
We also have at least 4 of the A-frame brown layers laying at least every other day, if not more of them doing that.
There are 4 Australorps and 2 Wyandottes for a possibility of 6 Brown eggs at the most a day. One green layer in Hawklady (I’m hoping for an egg from her today, she was in the nest box when I checked just a bit ago.) Then there are 8 Leghorns. So all possible layings are 15 eggs a day at most. Since the Leghorns are the older hens, it’s most likely that they won’t be doing every day laying past Spring, so if we are to get a full 15 ever in a day, it’ll be in Springtime most likely. I’m happy with what we are getting for now. It means we have to buy less eggs from that farm we’ve gotten them from lately. That’s a savings of money!
I hope I can get some more pullets though to take the place of the Leghorns this Spring, who will LAY and give me enough to sell to other folks every week or every other week.