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Sublette Chicken Ranch
Egg Fun & Facts
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Our very 1st egg arrived on the 4th of July! "Foggy" - the Leghorn - laid her 1st white egg at just 18 weeks! In mid-late July the others started. We get 5 varieties of eggs now.
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About once a month we get a "mega egg". We think the Brahmas give us these extra large double yoke eggs.
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A few times we found a shell-less egg. It's like a water balloon, but the membrane is so strong it bounced when we dropped it on the kitchen tile floor by mistake!
We think these are due to immature hens.
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Over the winter, egg production slowed down. Dolly, the Araucana, stopped laying her pretty green eggs all together.
In February the hens played a trick on us. We were only getting 1-3 eggs a day. Then Steve pulled back a board that had slipped below the nest boxes and found 50 eggs! For 2 weeks most of the hens had been sneaking behind the loose board - adding to the growing pile of eggs!
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Our total egg count with our first-year layers at the Chicken Ranch
was 1220 as of December 31, 2003!
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As of May 24th we have gotten 1059 eggs during 2004. Our winter production slowed to 3-6 eggs per day. Now that warmer weather is here we're back to 9-11 eggs daily.
We can't wait until this year's new chicks start laying in late summer. We'll get over a dozen every day! Our egg customers will be happy.
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