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[Abbey Road Girl]

Yesterday my son calculated that if our four Pepperpots each laid six eggs a week, we would get 1,250 eggs in a year. It hadn't occurred to me to do the maths!

 

That's a lot of omlets!

 

I am going to have to figure out what to do with them all!

[Cooks]

you'll need a bigger basket than the one you've got!

 

Nice to meet you yesterday

[Abbey Road Girl]

you'll need a bigger basket than the one you've got!

 

Nice to meet you yesterday

 

Nice to have met you! You're right about the basket--it's overflowing now.

[Geoid]

1250 eggs! I say make some cakes (and give them to me )

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've had 520 eggs so far from 3 girls - 2 have been laying since early December and one since early February .

[daj198]

You should work out the cost of the feed and how much the eggs would cost in a shop and see how much you're saving!

[Jules.]

Now that I have 4 girls I will be getting loads of eggs soon

I do like to give lots of eggs away, & find I am sometimes short of them for my own needs, so the extra eggs from the two new girls will come in really handy.

[Cooks]

yes I find if we've eaten lots of eggs, like dippy etc... my egg supply is lost pretty quick.. I suppose I could do with another hen laying.. but mine are happy as they are. and then we eat something without egg in so the supply builds up...

[meezers]

I've just worked out that we should get roughly 1,800 eggs a year , I did work out how many eggs a week we'd get before I got the chooks - but 35 seemed a vague,'theoretical' number. Now the egg skelter is overflowing and I feel a bit like the sorcerers' apprentice - feel like telling the chooks to 'wait a minute let us catch up'

[superjules]

Hmmm, my 3 bantams probably lay 180 eggs a year each, my 5 hybrids lay at least 300 per year each, that's well over 2000 eggs. At a very stingey 20p per egg (they're worth more than that!), that's £400. I'll have to put it that way to OH when he starts moaning about the cost of their housing!!

[hils78]

So how many eggs will my ex-bats give me roughly for the first year I have them (assuming they're about 1yr old)?

[Abbey Road Girl]

Thanks, everybody for your contributions to this thread. For some reason, new messages didn't get flagged (hope I'm using the correct terminology).

 

I think the consensus is that our hens lay a heck of a lot more eggs than we really eggspected. How is that?

 

Tomorrow I will take a trug full of no road or air mile eggs to distribute to my neighbours free of charge who are already very eggcited and henthused about the terrific addition to our neighbourhood.

 

Of course, they will be expected to pay good money if they want such lovely eggs in future! (Still, a big improvement on Tesco's battery farmed ones!)