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At five days less than 4 months old my pullet already laid an egg. To top that, it had a double yolk. I'm so proud of her.
I've found one egg every day since. Are the eggs likely from the same bird, or have the others also started laying this soon. Can very young birds lay an egg every day?
 
Each bird is an individual, but in general, it takes about 25 hours to make an egg. You will notice the eggs being laid later and later in the day until they skip a day, then it's back to the morning. Once they are 2 years old, production starts to slow down some, but I've still had great layers that were 4 years old. My almost 6 year old chickens don't lay anymore. They don't lay eggs while molting or broody either, so that affects production also.
 
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alfresco said:
At five days less than 4 months old my pullet already laid an egg. To top that, it had a double yolk. I'm so proud of her.
I've found one egg every day since. Are the eggs likely from the same bird, or have the others also started laying this soon. Can very young birds lay an egg every day?
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What breed pullets do you have?

Some production breeds can lay at 4 months, and can lay every day that young.
Double yolks are not uncommon in new layers, their systems are getting tuned up and odd eggs are common.

Had an amberlink cross last year laid 32 days straight right off the bat, then more days off for a couple week.
Then had runs of 49, 34, 20 days then tapered off into 5-6 day a week.
 
My Production Reds (sold in the feed store as Rhode Island Reds) started at 20 weeks and have barely missed a day since 6-7 eggs a week except a very short stint last winter where they were molting and it was not very sunny they went to 3 for a couple weeks is all.
 

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