sti chick Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hi, please could you help settle an arguement about how many eggs a hen lays daily. I thought possibly an egg a day. Our uncle is saying each hen will lay 2 eggs daily. This is all before we have got our chickens so i am still learning. Many thanks lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggypeggy Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 It's definately 1 egg per hen a day maximum! .. can be less, never heard of chickens producing two eggs a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzed Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I've been told that chickens produce eggs on a 25 hour cycle - so I think only one a day is possible! That might be a lot of nonsense though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 It is one a day, and the 25 hour cycle is correct. However they do occasionally have a hormonal surge and ovulate twice in one day, so they do lay twice in one day. It's not common though, and the second egg is usually soft shelled as it hasn't been inside the shell gland long enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoice Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 The closest one of my girls came was an egg first thing in the morning and a softie with no shell in the evening. I don't think it counts does it? It was a long summer day so the daylight hours were longer too. she didn't anything the next day either. Oh, yes, er, just as Snowy has written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sti chick Posted October 31, 2008 Author Share Posted October 31, 2008 thank you all for your replies. I have now told uncle john i was right lol. He is just a bit excited about us getting chickens in the spring, especially when my husband told him we would make the run a bit bigger and hen house so that he could keep a couple of hens there himself . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyhas3chucks Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 The closest one of my girls came was an egg first thing in the morning and a softie with no shell in the evening. I don't think it counts does it? It was a long summer day so the daylight hours were longer too. she didn't anything the next day either. Oh, yes, er, just as Snowy has written. same her on a few occasions not just in the summer & difernt chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 The day I first got my hens (exbats) They laid 4 between them! This was between 8am and 6pm whilst I was at work. All had normal shells but one had been broken - it got laid in the doorway of the eglu so think they trod on it. The shell that was left was normal as far as I could tell. I was quite surprised but they have not repeated it so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
