Mrs Potts Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Our three usually like to lay about an hour either side of noon, but no earlier. Sometimes there are two laying in the nesting box at the same time! They have been doing this for a month or so now, which is fine and makes no difference. Is it because they are getting a bit older or is this like everyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick wiggle Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 They are, in theory, supposed to lay roughly every 25 hours, making it an hour later every day until eventually they have a day off. Mine, however, havent read the rule book and lay whenever and whereever they flippin well please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacake Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 no idea - mine haven't started laying yet. OH keeps going out and telling them he's going to the supermarket to buy eggs but they aren't listening.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henergy Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Mine lay whenever - I thought they laid in early morning but seems I was wrong. The latest they have laid though is mid afternoon. And always in the same nest box ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy chick Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 mine aren't the best breed for laying and lay every other day. They seem to lay anytime of day though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumfychuck Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Mine are so predictable - Lady P always lays first (6.30-7 am) followed by Jessica (7 - 7.30 am) and then Scout (7.30 ish and if Jessica is still in the nest she lays on the roosting bar!). I then let them all out of the run to free range in the garden and Sally strolls back to the Eglu usually around lunchtime (but today was 3pm) to lay our last egg of the day. I can trust Sally to come back from wherever she is because she is my most sensible chicken. Lady P occasionally lays a softie late afternoon where ever she happens to be...in the woods...on the patio...middle of the lawn... If she does that she misses the next mornings early egg. = Lady P = Jessica = Scout = Sally I'm lucky each Girl has a distinctive egg so if I don't catch them at it I can still tell who's laid which! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Three of mine like to get the job out of the way early so that the rest of the day's their own. Bella likes to stroll up after lunch to lay her egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongladosh Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Troy (the boss) quickly pops one out in a 5 minute period before 7:30 Barnaby likes to spend an hour (oh yes) on the nest at 10 - she likes to 'read the paper' whilst on the nest. Houdini (when she's not acting as her alter-ego 'Broodini') lays in the afternoon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammiboo Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 mine will lay anywhere from 7.30 - 14.30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie1007 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 About the same time as yours - an hour either side of noon. But if one hasn't laid the day before, there is generally an egg in the nest box when we let them out in the morning. My Salmon Faverolle lays later than the other two but she's a bit sporadic as to when she lays! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickat Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I've had a hen and two pullets for exactly 1-month as of today. My hen, Henrietta, (golden comet or gold-sex-link I believe) lays in the morning about 8 A.M. --she fusses at me if I don't have the 'room service' for the Eglu Go done by that time. She marches right in ---and has laid an egg every day for the past 25 in a row--- skipped one before that and laid every day that I had her previously except the first day. Today was first egg for pullet, 'Hester'. She produced the egg in the afternoon---totally messed up the 'nesting box' by pushing all the wood shavings out and around, as if she had taken a dust bath in the coop. I was gone at the time and quite surprised to find the little perfect egg. She is 6-months old.... Bravo Hester. I suspect that she will be a few days producing the next egg. Her pullet sister will be the next producer. If they settle to a schedule, I wll be back later to post. My pullets are Barred Plymouth Rocks. Every day when I pick up Henrietta's egg, I treat her with freeze-dried mealworm treat... is it payment? bribe? operant conditioning? Does the hen connect the two events? to be continued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 My 2 girls usually lay their eggs before 8.30. However sometimes Lola has a day off She probably lays 5 days out of 7. She has always been like this and I am certain she doesn't lay in the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimmyCustard Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I have 5 and 4 are laying although I think Bubbles is about to start as well, she's gone bright red in the last 3 days. They all lay in the afternoon, about 2pm onwards. Marge always waits until I've pooper scooped, she cant possibly lay in a nest box that might have a poo in it She also throws all the Aubiose up in the air. Bertha sounds like she's being strangled when she's laid, stands at the top of the Cube and shouts her head off...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacake Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 yesterday morning we got our first brown egg (Ruby has laid 2 cream eggs so far!) we're not sure who laid it, but they sure were loud about it, it was 6.30am and I hadn't even let them out of the eglu yet! the other girls in there must have been deafened by her announcement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rhode Island Red Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 One of mine lays around 8.00 am 5 more lay around noon And another one lays at around 7.00 pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I have also noticed that when the hens have been off lay, for example when they moult, they seem to resume the same laying pattern as they did before, ie my Bella has always laid around lunchtime, and this hasn't changed after she has been off lay, and Queenie is always an early bird. If something upsets their laying pattern (such as, say, a neglectful owner accidently locking them out of the coop one morning Boy, did I feel bad when I realised what I had done) within a couple of days, they are back to laying at the same time they were before. The time they lay their egg must be more strongly programmed in than we think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
