eggs

The smallest egg we’ve ever seen

January 10, 2011
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One of our chickens has laid the smallest egg either of us have seen. It’s about the size of a pound coin and has a very tiny yolk indeed.

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2010 with the chickens

January 1, 2011
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A prolapsed chicken, a dead chicken, almost 1500 eggs… 2010 has been an interesting year to keep hens, and a rewarding one, too. Here’s to chicken success in 2011.

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September was a record month for eggs

October 3, 2010
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September was a very good month for our flock of eight hens, who between them managed to lay more than 200 eggs, which is a record for us. What did we do right?

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Even our chickens are self-sufficient now

July 3, 2010
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The chickens are more than paying their way now. We haven’t paid for chicken food out of our own pockets for a couple of months, which is another small step down the road to self-sufficiency.

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Margot the bow-legged chicken

June 21, 2010
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One of our chickens is laying double yolked eggs every day. It’s great for breakfast, but we worry about her health and how much longer she’ll be able to carry on laying eggs at that rate.

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A monster month for eggs

May 3, 2010
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We are now getting so many eggs a day from our five hens that we can’t eat them quickly enough. Pretty soon we’re going to have to put a for sale sign on the gate post.

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A rude awakening for one of our chickens

March 20, 2010
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A small egg in the next suggests that one of our new chickens may have laid its first. But has it? And if so, which one? This does seem remarkably early considering their age.

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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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