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Author:  BatonRouge Bill [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:18 am ]
Post subject:  Egg Production
11 hens layed 50 eggs in 5 days! Best egg production for me so far! Also the eggs seem a little bigger. I went to the coast for 5 days and left the chickens to the deer feeder and it was set a little high - feed still on the ground after feeding. I will turn it down a notch today. I also topped up all the quail feeders and as messy as they are the chickens were overstuffed. This is their first season laying and I read somewhere that you get 3-4 good years per hen and as they get older the eggs can get bigger.
Author:  pistolknight [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
Pretty good BB, you may get sick of eggs by the sounds, I have 3 isa's and they lay 3 eggs a day, one of the older ones misses every now and then, I thick stretchman or duff wrote elsewhere that 300 eggs a year from a chook is normal
Author:  Jaymie [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
so who was the lazy one then?
Author:  BatonRouge Bill [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
Jaymie wrote:
so who was the lazy one then?

Not sure but planning on culling about half the hens and a rooster. I also have a have dozen chicks about a month old and 2 dozen that hatched out today. I've been giving away more eggs than people have been saving cartons for me. I hate to buy cartons to give eggs away. I really just want a little excess of my family's needs. I should have thinned the laying flock back some time ago.
Author:  stretchman [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
Omelette, scrambled, pickled, fried, poached, Benedict, boiled, eggy bread (french toast), impossible pie, quiche, curried, sandwiches, coddled, meringue, custard etc. etc.

Time to get the recipe books out Bill!
Author:  earthbound [ Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
so many eggs, so little time..... :)
Author:  pistolknight [ Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Production
Don't put all you're eggs in one basket................................unless it's a big basket :cool:
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