As you know, I have kept a small flock of chickens (up to 7 now!) in my backyard for the last year and a half. Since I’m no longer a beginner at chicken keeping, I thought this year I would get more organised at keeping track of my egg count (my chickens’, that is). I created a spreadsheet that I can fill in whenever one of my girls lays an egg. This way I can tell who is laying and who isn’t.
As you can see by my spreadsheet I have some good and bad laying going on with my flock. I didn’t need a spreadsheet to tell me that Chica, my 9 month old Araucana ISN’T LAYING ANY EGGS! She’s the one that is supposed to lay the blue or green shelled eggs. Sadly, we are keeping her because she’s just become part of the family.
On the positive side, you can see that Wilma is a “rock star”. She was unstoppable last month. This breed usually lays 3 eggs a week. I guess she’s special.
What I didn’t put on the spreadsheet is that on the 31st, she laid a shell-less egg. This happens when they are running low on calcium. And as you can see after laying 30 eggs in a row, she was flat out of calcium.
Lastly, I can’t believe I had 95 eggs last month! I mean, what does one household do with 95 eggs!?!?? Fortunately, my mom was here to help consume some of those eggs and, I also gave about 2 dozen away.
I also think I’m becoming a bit of an egg hoarder…. But that’s another blog post, perhaps another time or never!
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