Collect a Dozen Eggs - PEP BB animal.sand.collecteggs

Hi, this is JJ. I collected eggs from my ducks. They are brown, grey and black girl ducks. We only have 5 ducks, so it too me a few days to collect all dozen.

Here is some eggs from my flock of 28 laying hens and 2 beautiful roosters. Some are in there retirement age and don't lay nearly as often as they used to but I swear they keep the peace and teach my younger gals what to do and how to behave! We get about 20 eggs a day right now.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- You must gather 12 eggs

To document completion of the BB, provide the photos or video (<2 min) of the following:
- Tell us in 1 paragraph or less about the hens/ducks/etc you are collecting the eggs from (Are they yours? A friends? How many hens?)
- A bird in the nest or nesting box
- An egg in the nest or nesting box
- A dozen eggs you have collected

Some of my chickens have started laying! They will be 6 months old in about a week. I have 26 birds, 22 of which are hens, 3 are ducks, and 1 is a rooster that I got from someone across town.

The Saggittas started laying at 4 months and I've caught some of the Plymouth Rocks laying at 5 months. I haven't caught any of the others laying yet (Americaunas, Brahmas, Columbian Wyandottes, and Bielefelders). We're at the start of November and we're getting 3-5 eggs a day. Quite a few have been double-yokers, which is exciting. At first I was finding eggs in random places on the ground and I like to think that those were each chicken's first egg and it took them by surprise.




Here is one of the Saggittas in a nesting box and you can see an egg in the box next door. This is an old cupboard I found in the barn. When I first moved the chickens out to this coop, they could almost all fit in one of these boxes and now they are huge! They also keep throwing the straw out of the boxes, so I need to figure out how to get the straw to stay in or put something down under the straw. Any suggestions?


Here's a Plymouth Rock nesting with an egg. All the straw got kicked out again.


Here is a bounty of eggs.


A dozen eggs.