Category: Eggs

  • The ‘new’ hens and egg news

    We got the ‘new’ hens on Saturday, 3 seem to be a mix of Aracauna-ish and Rhode Island Red –though are supposedly all brown egg layers, and then we have 6 Rhode Island Reds. The man set aside 9 hens for us, not the 7 we had said, so we ended up with 2 more,…

  • Gaining hennies

    Our hennies haven’t been laying since the end of November. I’m hoping they’ll start laying soon. Recent picture of the Wyandottes. They are looking like they are ready to lay … I have other news about eggs though. We’ve been getting eggs from the meat store a few miles up the road, which carries mostly…

  • Hot Hennie Update

    Our hennies egg production has picked up a bit the last few weeks. I have tried to keep them in order, get counts to put up here and all that, but … last week and over the weekend I’ve not been my best, so some things slide. FWIW. The biggest thing to note though is…

  • Moving the pen caused loss

    Yesterday I moved the Leghorn pen, to give them some fresher grass, as well as to collect the five eggs they’d laid. For some reason without a box they all lay in a different spot, so the eggs are not in a pile or even close to one another, but all spread out. The pen…

  • Exciting day

    Today our hens laid! As far as we know, three today. It’s raining quite heavily now, frequent lightening, so we haven’t checked the hens in awhile. 🙂 Hawklady, one the Leghorns, then one of the Wyandottes laid. So we have a green, white, and brown each. My favorite combination! I didn’t see who laid the…

  • Hens, Lights, and ears

    Well it’ s rather wet and dreary and chilly again today. Yesterday the hennies gave me a white egg, then three brown eggs, and that was it. Today it was exactly opposite. First a brown egg, then three white eggs, and nothing more so far. It’s funny to look at the eggs in their prospective…

  • Egg Counts moved to own page

    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…

  • Eggs for Feb 22 2005

    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…

  • Eggs for Feb 21 2005

    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…

  • Eggs for Sunday – The Lord’s Day Feb 20 2005

    The Lord’s Day Eggs for 2-20-2005 8:30 AM – 1 Brown, 1 White 11:00 AM – 1 White PM – 2 Brown, 1 Green, 1 White Gotten in this order: BWWBGBW Total: 7

  • Eggs for Feb 19 2005

    Eggs for 2-19-2005 1 Green 3 Brown 3 White gotten through the day in this order: G B B W W W B Total: 7

  • Eggs for Feb 18 2005

    Eggs for 2-18-2005 9:30 AM – 1 Brown, 1 White 11:00 AM – 2 Brown 12:15 PM – 1 Brown 1:30 PM – 1 Brown, 1 White 3:40 PM – 1 White Total Thus Far: 8 It was cold last night, below freezing for the first time in awhile. The hens are laying fine today…

  • Eggs for Feb 17 2005

    Eggs for 2-17-2005 9:30 AM – 2 Brown 11:30 AM – 1 White 12:oo PM – 1 Green 1:00 PM – 1 Brown Total Thus Far: 5 Update: 12:10 PM: I went out to check for eggs and found Hawklady in the A-Frame Nest Box. She was in a laying position, close to actuall dropping…

  • Eggs for Feb 16 2005

    2-16-2005 Egg Count: 6:00 AM – 1 Brown (the hens and me were up before sunrise and so I got this one nice and warm) 8:00 AM – 2 Brown, 1 Green (1 brown was very warm, the other two were cooling down) during the PM – 1 White, 2 Brown Total Thus Far: 7…

  • Eggs for Feb 15 2005

    2-15-2005 Egg Count: 9:00 AM – 1 White 11:30 AM – 2 Brown (both not warm when gotten) PM – 1 Brown Total: 4 I went out to check for eggs at 8am today. We had an egg right before that the day before. I didn’t think there’d be one that early today, not from…

  • Eggs for Valentine’s Day 2005

    2-14-2005 Egg Count: 7:50 AM – 1 Brown (very warm when gotten then, so not a hen that laid yesterday 🙂 ) 11:00 AM – 1 Brown (slightly warm when gotten) 12:15 PM – 1 Green (very warm when gotten, and an Australorp on top of it) 1:15 PM – 1 Brown (slightly warm when…

  • Eggs for Sunday – The Lord’s Day Feb 13 2005

    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…

  • Eggs for Feb 12, 2005

    2-12-2005 Egg Count: PM – 1 White, 2 Brown Total: 3

  • Friday’s Fabulous Fowls

    2-11-2005 Egg Count: 10:00 AM – 1 green 12:50PM – 2 Brown, 1 White 3:15PM – 1 Brown Later PM – 1 Brown Total: 6 I fed the hens this very chilly morning (27 degrees, back down to Winter’s level again 😉 ). I opened the nest box door on the A-Frame pen, and was…

  • Surprise under A-Frame door

    2-10-2005 Egg Count: Collected in the PM – 7 Brown PM -2 White Total Eggs: 9 (not all from same day) I’ve had the children feeding the hens the last couple of days, or the last few or more … it’s now Thursday and I can’t quite recall :rolleyes: In any case I do think…