Ange1 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I don't know what time ours lay but it is after 8.30am when I go to work and before 1pm when I pop home at lunchtime!! They've only just started laying 2 out of 5 have anyway, and one is laying on the roosting bars and it is getting broken by being trampled on! As they get older will they lay any earlier? Will they learn where the nest box is? I just wondered what time your girls laid? Does the time of year effect them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoice Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 My girls have never been early layers. usually about 3-4pm but then Babs once laid by 6.30am one day and produced a softy at 7pm the same day. Almost 2 in one day but I think she was overdoing it as it was, as I say, a softie and was laid as a pile of ribbon-like shell with yolk and white everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HENthusiastic Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Mine are very good reliable girls, they get up at approximately 7am. Quick bit of breakfast, then take it in turns to go and lay a nice egg. By 8.30 we usually have all the days eggs ............Except Buttercups! She insists that its too much like hard work laying an egg at that time on the morning. She waits until much later in the day, usually about mid day. I personally think her and Henrietta have got an arrangement going on. Henrietta's broody and because Buttercup lays so late, Henrietta gets left with her egg to sit on all day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Normally all 3 would have laid by about 11am. Ruby is getting much earlier, DH was on nights and got home at 6.15am he thought he'd go and look and there was Ruby's egg! Opal is usually not far behind, she's laid by 8am recently but Pearl waits until there's no queue and lays by 11. This has only happened over the last week or so, any body got any ideas why they are so early all of a sudden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treekeeper Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 My 2 black rocks lay early morning. Legbar whenever she feels like it and Wyandotte in the afternoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ange1 Posted July 24, 2008 Author Share Posted July 24, 2008 The 'light' mornings ChicVic? HENthusiastic can I have yours?! They sound so organised! How long before they learn where the nest box is I wonder? There is a rubber egg in there what more do they want? It's just a shame that half of our eggs at the moment are being broken by the clumsy girls standing on them on the roosting bars. After their breakfast they almost all go up the ladder again (they're not all laying, I'm sure it's just them being nosey!) Or are they practising?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Moet usually lays in the morning. Peri lays one hour later each day until she reaches about 430, then misses a day and starts all over again. Chandon is in a softshell blip (3 months now) and is hit and miss (still she is bright, active and cheeky, so there can't be much wrong with her) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abwsco Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Usually all done by lunch but I've currently got Barney sat in a nestbox laying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electricbarbarella Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I want eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yolky Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 *lobs an egg at barbarella* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I need a button that says " throughout the day". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I can't answer this. They lay any time between 5am and 9pm now the days are long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Like Egluntine I need a button that says "throughout the day". It varies, this week Ivory has laid in the afternoon, on Wednesday it was after 5pm but yesterday no egg, so hope for one fairly early today. Ebony still lays on the bars very rarely in the nest box, luckily the eggs survive even if they fall through to the poo tray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ange1 Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Arh Gallina, you say now the days are long? So does that suggest that things and times change as the night's draw in? Interesting! I think I assumed that laying eggs was something they would do first thing. Now I hear that basically that any time goes I'm not so worried. i thought my girls were just lazy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatally Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 My Speckledy has gone nuts and is laying at all times. She laid through the night last night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleBoPeep Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 We normally have all our eggs by about 10.00am. These's a definate order in which they lay. The weather seems to be a big factor too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egg Lou Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Anytime they feel like it button??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
