How to use it
Every evening
Write the day's eggs in each column and the total. If you collect twice a day, add them up at the evening collection.
Use the notes
A word or two is enough: "hot", "broody Daisy", "new hens", "molting", "sold 2 dozen". The notes explain the dips later.
At the end of the month
Add up the totals, then copy the month onto the year page. Divide by the number of laying hens for eggs per hen.
What's a normal number?
A good laying hen lays about 4 to 6 eggs a week in her first two years, fewer as she gets older. Laying drops in autumn and winter.
Spotted a drop?
Check the timing against your notes, then read why chickens stop laying for the usual causes.
Know your cost per egg
With a month of totals, the cost per egg calculator shows what each egg really costs you.