Egg Laying

LadyPluck · « **on:** November 03, 2009, 12:12 »

Hope this is in the correct place. It would be interesting to find out the results

craig1981 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2009, 12:26 »

theres always an egg 0r 2 by 6 am when i let them out and by the time my daughter does a check b4 she leaves for school we have had another 4 or 5 . Only very occasionally do we get an egg in the afternoon

Casey76 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2009, 13:29 »

That's a mixed bag!

My girls tend to lay throughout the morning, and will have ususally finished by lunchtime. Rarely I will get an egg in the afternoon, but this is definitely the exception.

However as the days get shorter, they are laying later and later.

Alby · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2009, 13:30 »

Mine lay all day !!!

Youngsters am and pm, oldies pm , batties whenever they want to

no rhyme or reason to it .
Alby

too many girls · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2009, 13:31 »

my hens are getting on a bit and lay erratically, sometimes in the morning sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes not at all, sometimes in the hen house, sometimes underneath the hen house, or anywhere they think i won't find them

Beano · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2009, 13:43 »

My chickens are all over the place. Sometimes mid morning and sometimes in the afternoon. Hardly ever first thing, they have food on their minds then. It depends entirely what time they layed the previous day.

LadyPluck · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2009, 16:30 »

So far only Lola has laid - on alternate days since friday. She lays late morning. This morning, I actually saw her lay (sorry Lola)

Ladyplotter · « **Reply #7 on:** November 03, 2009, 21:30 »

3of my 4 all lay in the morning usually by 9-but I think the clocks going back has thrown them a bit-the 4th is yet to lay-not sure why she's so far behind the others who have been laying now for at least 5 weeks and they were supposed to be the same age.

hillfooter · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2009, 02:19 »

I think you missed out a randomly tick box. I read somewhere that chx ovulate every 25hrs so if so they will slowly cycle the time they lay each day however as others have said there are other factors which infuence them. Younger hens tend to lay earlier I'd say though.
Regards

Fredjones · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2009, 13:29 »

Placed my egg laying poll as late morning and guess what! they have layed in the early afternoon

joyfull · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2009, 16:58 »

whenever they feel like it, morning and afternoon.

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