After all that bragging...

Weekly total: 90
2012 total: 794

Apparently the girls took a little stay-cation this week.  Only 90 eggs this week.  One day with less than a dozen...really girls?

I may be a slacker, but my girls are on a roll!

3 week update
As of today 2012 total: 701

Week of February 5-11: 93 eggs* new weekly record at that time
Average of 13.2 eggs per day

Week of February 12-18: 94 eggs* new weekly record
Average of 13.4 eggs per day

Week of February 19-25: 94 eggs

Market is going really well.  I am taking about 7-8 dozen eggs each week including some 1/2 dozen cartons.  I've tried convincing people that they can purchase a whole dozen because fresh eggs will keep for a long time.  Several customers prefer 1/2 cartons and fresh, fresh eggs each week. I can't rally argue with that.

Along with a few cartons of all brown eggs, I've been mixing up colors.  Customers get a hoot out of the tri-color dozen mix.  One lady said it just makes her happy to open the fridge and see all the colors. =]

Another record week

Weekly total: 89* new record
2012 total: 420

Sunday 15
Monday 11
Tuesday 10
Wednesday 14
Thursday 14
Friday 14
Saturday 11

Slow week

Weekly total: 78
2012 total: 143

Sunday 11
Monday 10
Tuesday 13
Wednesday 13
Thursday 10
Friday 11
Saturday 10
{Puffy Cheeks, an all white Ameraucana, chillin' in the run}

New weekly record-85 eggs

Weekly total: 85* new record
2012 yearly total: 165

Sunday 12
Monday 16 (still short one Ameraucana egg)
Tuesday 7
Wednesday 12
Thursday 12
Friday 12
Saturday 14

{Gold Laced Wyandotte hen. One of the 3 sisters that are nearly inseparable. I am sure the other two are just out of frame.}

Doing their job

Running total: 406
2012 total 80

Sunday 10
Monday 16* new daily record! One Ameraucana didn't do her job, but the rest did. =]
Tuesday 9
Wednesday 12
Thursday 11
Friday 10
Saturday 12

Hawkie, an Ameraucana, checking out the daily haul in the nests

Final week of 2011

Yearly total: 326
Monthly total: 279* current record
Weekly total: 79

Sunday 11
Monday 10
Tuesday 10
Wednesday 12
Thursday 14* new daily record
Friday 12 first day with all 3 Brown Leghorns laying
Saturday 10

One of the Red Sex Links (or Red Star) Chickens hunting down a bug

We Brock You a Merry Christmas

Yearly total: 247
Monthly total: 200
Weekly total: 82* new record

Sunday 12* was a record
Monday 11
Tuesday 10
Wednesday 12
Thursday 12 first day with 2 green eggs
Friday 13* new daily record
Saturday 12

We used some of our eggs to make what I call Backyard Fresh Egg Nog. It is so, so, *so* delicious!

62 pieces of poultry pleasure

Yearly count: 145
Monthly count: 118

Weekly count: 62 (+17 from previous week)

Sunday 8
Monday 7
Tuesday 11* new daily record
Wednesday 8
Thursday 9
Friday 9
Saturday 10

{Pea checking out part of this week's haul}

The girls were working hard

Yearly total: 109

Eleven beauties waiting for me today...

I love those blue green eggs! They are like little gems from the nest. =]

This week in egg counting

Yearly count: 83

Sunday 4

Monday 7

Tuesday 4

Wednesday 7

Thursday 8 (new daily record!)

Friday 8

Saturday 7 Including our first blue green egg from an Americuana!

A comparison of our typical sized eggs:

Weekly total: 45 eggs
December 2011 running total : 56

I ordered some plain 12 count egg cartons from Zellwin Farms. The price was very good, the order was shipped the day after I ordered. The cartons are sturdy and exactly what I was looking for to transport the eggs. Zellwin Farms offers the option to customize the labeling on the boxes which is awesome. I am not quite there yet, but I can't wait to do that. =]

Record: 7 egg Friday!

Yearly total:34

The girls were busy after taking Thursday off. We got seven eggs Friday-two white and five brown.

Just 1

Yearly count: 16

I guess most of the girls are taking Sunday off. Just one brown egg today.

=]

A handful for Saturday!

Yearly count: 15

One this morning

Four this afternoon. I cleaned ur the coop today and moved the stone up one next. Three eggs from this afternoon were laid in that next. I has stopped them from laying in the dirt. It is remarkable.

Dirty finds 4

Yearly count: 10

Three eggs in the bottom left nest.  This is looking like a favorite spot for the girls.

One more hiding in the nest right above that.

3 IS the magic number

Wednesday afternoon we got 3 eggs!  All of them where in the coop.  Hopefully the girls will keep laying there.  They are in and out of the coop and nesting boxes all day.


We are almost positive the brown egg is from The Enforcer, a Black Sex-Link. I'm guessing that two of the Brown Leghorns are laying now. The play follow the leader in and out of the coop all morning.

Yearly count: 6

Dirty finds 2

No eggs Monday but Dirty found 2 eggs today.  A white one in the dirt and a brown one in the nests.  The white eggs are from one of the brown leghorns, but I don't know which of the 3.  We're not sure which hen laid the brown one.  We have 3 different breeds that will lay brown eggs for us.

Yearly count: 3  =]

The count starts

We've been waiting since June 11 for these jokers. Today we finally had the first egg laid.

Of course it was in the dirt where the house of cards was but an egg is an egg and I am stoked! Let the counting begin.

1 for those keeping track. =]