On Friday we posted the 2025 Rainfall Data. It was a look back at the entire year precipitation totals, by day and by month. Today we'll look at egg production. The first chart, shown below, is the daily log. We actually keep a handwritten log and transfer it at year end to tally up the numbers in Excel. I'm sure it would be easier to just log it into Excel each day, but this 'old school' system seems to work for us. It's a total of 4,350 eggs for the year.
Let's see how that stacks up against previous years. We've kept egg production records since 2013. I'm sad to report that at 4,350 eggs, 2025 was the lowest egg production year on record. We still produced 362.50 dozen eggs. The highest month for eggs was June and the lowest was December. If you total up the numbers, May is historically the best month and December the worst.
It's kind of amazing to see that since 2013 98,030 eggs or 8,169 dozen eggs have been produced off of 3 acres of pasture.
This table simply shows the data in a different format and adds in the number of hens below to help estimate the average eggs per day and how often they lay.
It's interesting, but there are some variables that skew the data, namely predation. In September, a couple of mink began murdering our hens. You can see the fall-off in the chart above during that period. By the time that the dust (and feathers) settled and I had caught the two mink in our trap and settled the score in Old Testament fashion, our flock was cut in half. Our numbers would have been more in line with prior years. Those mink really sunk any profitability in eggs this year. We did, however, have enough eggs produced off the land that we never had to buy eggs and had enough left over to sell some too. At some point this spring, we may incubate some more chicks to build the flock's numbers back up.
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