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Are their combs red? Do you have any windows in your chicken coop so they get as many hours of light as possible during the day? Are you feeding them a high protein layer feed, a calcium source such as crushed oyster shells, grit, and of course plenty of water? Could they be eating the eggs...

We have gotten 2 rubber eggs since the chickens first started laying a couple months ago. I found them under the roost. i guess they laid them while on the roost. They have oyster shells.

We got our first double yoker yesterday. We have 10 hens and have gotten as many as 7 eggs per day. We have 7 Australorps, 1 Asian Blue and 2 Buff Orphingtons. I know one of the Orphington's comb isn't red enough lay. Not sure if all the Australorps are laying.

The first eggs we got were either out in the run or on the coop floor. Once the first layers learned to use the nests, each new layer that followed started out using the nests and never laid on the floor or outside. Did they learn by watching the other chickens?

Maybe you could add a perch on the front of the nest box out away from the nest. I have perches on mine and sloped roof on top. I assume you have the roosts mounted higher than the nests.

It was 4 days between our first and second egg. Then 2 days between the 2 and 3rd. egg.

Nice! We are up to 11 eggs now from what appears to be two different chickens. Same as yours, one set of our eggs is much darker than the other.

I think we are up to 8 eggs now. Two were laid on the coop floor and one outside in the run. The rest were laid in the nest boxes. There are at least 2 out of the 10 chickens that we have are laying now. Some are obviously still too young. I thought about adding a light to extend the...

We got the first egg 4 days ago and haven't gotten another one since then. Is this typical, when a hen first starts laying? Once I got the first egg, I expected another one every day or two.