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The chickens lay a rubber egg

February 19, 2010
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One of our chickens has laid an egg with a soft shell that did not form properly inside its body. It was very soft and rubbery – so much so that we could safely squeeze it without the malformed shell breaking.

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January 2010 egg count shows how our chickens are declining

February 6, 2010
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Chickens lay fewer eggs as they get older, but how much does production drop off after one year? In our case it seems to be a massive 66% after comparing our January eggs counts for 2009 and 2010.

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The final egg count for 2009

January 1, 2010
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Despite a serious decline in the number of eggs we got from our hens at the end of the year, the total for 2009 was 876, which averages 2.4 eggs a day – almost one for each hen in our flock.

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Scrambled eggs

December 21, 2009

Problems in the coop. The chickens are slowly starting to lay again, but they are doing it on the roosting bars, not the nesting box. The result: broken eggs that are no good for human consumption.

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November egg count

December 2, 2009
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I think we should stress the first two letters of November: NO. Specifically NO eggs from two of our three hens for most of the month.
Poor old Margot is dropping feathers quicker than a pillow fight and she looks quite a state (or at least as far as we can tell she does, but we’re [...]

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The collapse of our egg supply

November 11, 2009
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Chickens lay fewer eggs in winter. It’s a well-established fact, and the reason most commercial producers keep their hen sheds artificially lit at night. On a small scale, in the back garden, we’re obviously not going to do that.
They also lay fewer eggs as they age, and those two factors have had a dramatic effect [...]

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Eggs for September

October 3, 2009
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You can tell we’re heading for winter. The chickens are responding to the shorter days with fewer eggs: in September they laid just 77.

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August egg count

September 2, 2009

Egg countAugust was a great month for the chickens. They seemed to enjoy the warm weather and sunshine, and responded to the extra light with 91 eggs.

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June egg count

July 15, 2009

Egg tallyA little late, perhaps, but I’ve tallied up the eggs laid in June. 85. That’s slightly down on last month, and the fourth monthly decline in a row, down from a high of 91 in March.

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May egg tally

June 9, 2009

Egg tally for 2009May saw a slight fall in the number of eggs laid by our three hens. That was unexpected, but there are some possible explanations.

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