The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: spikey_fridge on March 15, 2011, 07:25:25 am
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are we all back to laying normally? all mine survived the winter and are now giving me 4 or 5 eggs a day. i have 5 chooks.
due to the frost and a spare table, i elevated the coop and made a ladder with bits of wood and baling twine. i also let them out to roam and scratch about 3 hours before they go to bed. they tend to go off down the road and inspect the neighbours gardens. i did want them to be completely free range but have to pen them up most of the day
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Pretty much. We have nine chickens and are getting 4-5 eggs a day. Out of this nine, 3 are ex-battery which we've had for 18 months now so I only expect them to lay when they feel like it, so not bad really.
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yup, winter rest period over, we have 10 hens, (11, but one youngster is looking more masculine by the day!!) and getting 7-9 eggs a day. the geese are laying too.
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Pretty much. We have nine chickens and are getting 4-5 eggs a day. Out of this nine, 3 are ex-battery which we've had for 18 months now so I only expect them to lay when they feel like it, so not bad really.
Just about the same as me, my 10th one is a rescue called Lucky and I don't think she has ever laid since I got her. But she comes when she's called and eats from my hand, sits on the wall and 'chats' to me on a fine day, so I don't mind. ;D
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well, mine are all over the place!
the youngest girls in the "big shed" who were hatched from June 2010 onwards are laying pretty well, we know the 2 BC Marans, 2 out of three Light Sussex and at least 1 Redcap are laying, and two others.. not sure which! so some havent started (or are immature cockerels)
the ex-batts have been through a spate of egg eating (grrr!!) but we dont seem to get more than 4 from 13 birds
the quail are still convinced its winter (mind you, so am I this week!)
and the 7 ducks seem to be 3 ducks & 4 drakes, we get about 2 eggs a day from them....
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i egg a day from 2 ducks, and about 17 eggs from 19 chucks, more than i was getting in the summer, oh the things going on in their tiny minds ;D
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Our 6 are being all over the shop. We had a lean period over the winter - fair enough - and then started to get 3 eggs every 2 days (from 6). However over the last couple of weeks they have gone through a spell of really soft shelled eggs which are therefore trashed/squashed before I get to them >:(
They are free range so have loads of access to everything around the place - also grit as well as their layers pellets.
Have only got a total of 2 hard shell eggs from 6 of them in 2 weeks >:(
Tish