I have had to do this right at the end of the year this year as Red is still laying. Sadly we lost Salmon and Dot this year. We lost Salmon on 22nd February when she couldn’t lay her first egg after two years of not laying. We lost Dot on 17th July after laying prolifically for five months.
I will first show how many months each girl has laid before their total eggs laid.
Salmon – 0 months – 0 eggs.
Dot – 5 months – 75 eggs.
Autumn – 1 month – 8 eggs.
Gold – 6 months – 62 eggs.
Storm – 7 months – 68 eggs.
Sugar – 5 months – 38 eggs.
Mango – 4 months – 29 eggs.
Cloud – 5 months – 41 eggs.
Snow – 4 months – 46 eggs.
Red – 2 months – 19 eggs.
Total eggs for this year is 386.
Some of the lower egg totals are because of broodiness. Autumn and Red have low totals due to the short time they laid. With the days very gradually lengthening Red has started laying more frequently and is now laying every other day. It will be interesting to see how Autumn and Red do next year.
Storm is a much better layer than Mango and Cloud but that is due to the broodiness of Mango and Cloud. Sugar’s total also reflects her broodiness.
Snow didn’t start laying until half way through June so she will probably lay a lot more next year.
All eggs are very much appreciated.
And I wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
How nice to have all those lovely eggs. May all your girls be healthy and happy in the new year.
It is lovely. It’s also great having Red laying every other day now.
Happy New Year, Carol. Meticulous record keeping, as always – I now have too many to attempt that, but am not well enough organised in any case. Best egg day in months here: 9 in total, 8 from new starters and one old welsummer.
My flock is so much smaller than yours and with eight quite different girls it’s actually easy to keep my egg count. I am also a meticulous recorder I have to admit! A 9 egg day is amazing.
I tried to add this comment to your previous post, but it would not let me – here it is now.
Had our first blue egg a couple of days ago and suddenly, there is breakthrough – 7 today, but not all in the right places!
A blue egg is lovely. A 7 egg day is amazing. Doesn’t matter where your comment ends up as long as I get it. You are getting amazing amounts of eggs. I am just grateful to have Red’s eggs which have gone from one a week to two a week to now every other day which is fabulous.