Single hen

[ChickNic]

Our girls have been laying 2 eggs a day in the nesting box for about a week now, and we cleaned their run out on sat (including moving the whole thing onto the grass and raking the hemcore over) so none could have been hiding. However, before I let them out the eglu this morning I found an extra egg under the grub in the run! How can this be as don't they only lay one egg a day each?! I am slightly baffled. Incidentally, it is shaped like a torpedo and looks nothing like the others. The only answer can be that we have magic chickens…

[robskyd]

Our Doris has laid more than one egg in a day, and apparently its not that rare... though I much prefer your explanation of magic chickens... so we should stick to that!

[Olly]

I like the magic chicken theory ... but when mine were new, I once got four eggs in one day! It's due to the eggquipment not quite being in a routine, and the strange torpedo shape suggests that, too.

[craftyhunnypie]

Well I'm getting odd eggs. I thought I'd sorted out who was laying what colours. Smartie - white, Bounty - plum blush & Rolo - dark brown. I've been getting all these, but I've also been getting some bantam sized eggs - beautifully smooth - beige that look like they have been polished!!! Could one of my girlies be laying 2 in a day? I've not cracked one of the little eggs yet to see if it has a yolk - But I'm confused now about who is laying what!

 

Magic chickens...I like that theory makes me think of the eglu as a pink magic mushroom house!

 

Emma.x

[ChickNic]

I'm looking forward to my magic chickens laying a magic golden egg....that would help pay for the eglu

 

Alas, maybe it isn't so unusual to lay more than one in a day, but I still think mine are pretty special!

[Egluntyne]

I've had 9 eggs from 8 chickens before now.

[Christian]

I've had 9 eggs from 8 chickens before now.

 

thats better than my ONE egg from THREE chickens!!

[bronze]

I feel for you Christian I do...

 

 

Could you have overlooked the egg from before?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've had 9 eggs from 8 chickens before now.

 

thats better than my ONE egg from THREE chickens!!

 

Try NO eggs from THREE chickens

[The Dogmother]

How about NO EGGS from 10 hens and one scrawny cockerel?

 

They're let off though - my beautiful pure breed bantams are growing their new winter collection in time for the cold weather.