what time do your hens lay??

[Y N dottes]

Just wondering, but at what time do your hens lay?......mine seem to lay at different times everyday. Never before 10am, and sometimes in the late afternoon.

 

[BethChick78]

Mine all lay before 10am. 10 chickens, 10 eggs a day consistently and all before 10am. Strange ????

 

[Heartforchickens]

In Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, Gail Damerow writes: "The whole process of an egg forming inside a hen takes about 25 hours, causing a hen to lay her egg about an hour later each day. Since a hen's reproductive system slows down during the night, eventually she'll skip a day altogether and start a new multiple-day laying cycle the following morning." Thus you have the time difference in when she lays each day. Amazing, isn't it?

 

[kuntrygirl]

6:00 AM - 5:00PM.

 

[chickenpooplady]

I have one that will lay in the evening. One day she layed at 8 pm. Weird!

 

[Y N dottes]

there was one day when all of my hens laid by at least noon, so naturally i thought that was it for the day, but when i went out at around 6.30, there was another egg. it was the sixth egg from 5 chickens and this was the first week we had them so i was keeping track of how many eggs we got and stuff.....weird