- Thread starter
- #29,421
There is quite a large tolerance in the time it takes a hen to lay an egg. Better to look at the 24 hour standard as an average rather than a median value.Sort of random question, I guess, but it’s driving me crazy: why do some chickens - mine, anyway - lay at the same time every day?
It’s supposed to take 26 hours (27?) for an egg to form. Ours lay at the same time each morning.
EE: hasn’t missed a day in 4 weeks. Marches into the coop at the same time each morning and back out 15-20 minutes later.
BO: lays 4-5x/week. Takes longer to lay, but same time, including when she lays several days in a row.
BR: 3, moving toward 4. Same time, although it’s rare for her to lay two days in a row.
Can the next egg start forming while the current one is at the final spray paint booth stage or something? (The EE doesn’t have a paint booth - eggs are the same pale blue-green inside and out.)
I’m not complaining, mind you, but my logic-pattern-loving brain is going bananas.
It can be even more misleading when the manufacturing runs faster than the delivery. You can see this sometimes when one or two eggs are delivered within a couple of hours sometimes and the have flats on them. This usually means the eggs have crashed into each other just before shelling as I understand it.
Humans with their nine month pregnancies are much the same. Even with accurate conception data, not many get delivered exactly nine months later.
