Chicken Egg Production Log Printable

Most backyards know roughly how many eggs a week they get, and roughly is where the trouble starts. This page has two free printable sheets for a chicken egg production log: sheet 1 is a 12-row daily table with a column for the date, one for the hen count, one for the egg count, and a notes column. Sheet 2 rolls four weeks up: a totals table with total, used, and sold, plus one feed note line. Both are write-in, both print tonight, and neither one predicts anything.

The daily log: twelve rows and one habit

A row takes ten seconds the day the basket comes in and can't be reconstructed at the end of the week. The hens column is a headcount, because flock size shifts over a season and an old row stops making sense without it. The eggs column is what the basket held, whatever that was. The notes column is for the day something changed, which is the only day notes earn their space. When the twelve rows are gone, print another sheet; blank sheets are free.

Fits A4 and US Letter at 100%. Grayscale prints fine.

Four weeks of weekly totals on one page. The Used and Sold columns are the same ones the Homestead Harvest Journal carries on its egg tracker.

The weekly table: four weeks, then the month is done

The weekly sheet is where a pile of daily rows turns into something a household can act on. Copy four weeks in, and the Used and Sold columns tell you whether the kitchen is keeping up with the basket, which is the question most people actually care about. The feed note line underneath holds the week's feed in one line, so a quiet month next to a full one can be traced back to what went in the bucket. A month of records on a single sheet of paper beats any app you will open twice.

Four opinions on keeping an egg log

Opinions from making record sheets, take or leave:

1. Weigh the basket, not the bird. A kitchen scale under the full basket gives one number a day, written straight into the notes column when you care to. Handling every bird to chase a number most households never use is work without a payoff. The count is the record; the weight is a bonus line.
2. Fill the row the same hour every day. Pick the collection you already do and tack the row onto it. Logs kept "sometime in the evening" fill with blanks, and a blank row teaches you to stop writing.
3. Write what changed, not weather poetry. "Switched feed," "new pullets in," "short days now." One word a row. When a week runs low, the explanation is already next to the number instead of lost in the yard.
4. Reprint, don't squeeze. A full sheet gets reprinted; a sheet with rows squeezed in margins becomes unreadable in a drawer. Keep completed sheets in the binder by month, oldest on top, and the year files itself.

What this log doesn't do

Both sheets are record pages. They store what you wrote and nothing else: no feeding or flock-health guidance, no pest advice, and no prediction of what any hen will lay. The numbers are yours; the sheets just hold them where the next person can read them.

Printable PDF, A4 + US Letter. Personal use.

This log is the daily-count core of the Homestead Harvest Journal 2026, a 40-page printable planner for the whole homestead. The maker's egg tracker runs a 6-weeks-by-7-days grid with uses and sales on the same page, and the year summary rolls up eggs, jars, weight, sold, spent and earned in one place, alongside a season task wheel, a 12-bed garden planner, preservation logs for canning, freezer and dry store, monthly budget boxes, recipe cards and a weekday-correct 2027 calendar. For the chores around the coop, there's a free homestead planner printable, and for the rows before the basket, a free garden planting log printable.