what time of day do your chickens lay eggs

[Katydid2011]

Our hens start laying shortly after the barn light goes on in the morning, around 5:30 or so. At this time of year, all of the eggs are laid by 4:00pm, even though our barn coop is lighted until 7:30pm. Chickens normally lay on a cycle that begins early then gets slightly later each day, until they skip a day or two and begin again.

 

[peachachecha]

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My three do the very same thing. Each day it gets a little later and usually on the fourth day they take a day of rest and then the next day it is once again bright and early that they lay.

 

[Geckochick]

Our girls have just been laying for a few weeks. I get the bulk of the eggs before 7 am (this morning there were 11). I expect shortly, when I go out, there will be another 5 or so, and then a few stragglers before dinner.

 

[ninabeast]

My chickens lay all day, from dawn to dusk (and sometimes beyond!), every day a little later than the day before. They keep something of an order, like a baseball line up, but it shifts later and later each day, until someone lays in the late afternoon and takes the next day off. But mine are only 7 months, and I have no idea how they'll do in their maturity.

 

[stormylady]

I have 38 in the big coop and they lay all hrs of the day so I have to check out the next several times a day. The latest egg I think has been around 10pm.

 

[debid]

Individually, they lay slightly later than the day before until they reach their personal cutoff time and then that egg is held until sunrise and the cycle repeats. So, as a group, it's all over the place and I get eggs anywhere from at first light until dusk but each chicken (aside from one oddball) has a predictable routine.

 

[mychoock]

My girls apparently lay any time that they are not actually sleeping! I find an egg or two almost every time I go out to the coop... whether that is 6:30 am or 4:30 pm (when they go to bed). I try to get out there on a regular schedule, but working three days a week (gone all day) makes that hard.
I know hens only lay every 25 hours or so, but I wonder if mine are on a 26 - 28 hour cycle.

 

[lorain's fids]

Thank you for sharing your chickens laying times. I can't wait till I get my first egg. I only have 5 chickens so even if they lay at different times it won't be a problem as I'll only be getting 5 eggs a day (hopefully).

 

[ozark_chickies]

My hens start at day light, and stop when it gets dark . I had a hen on the nest when I closed up the hen house this evening , and everyone else was on the roost

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[bleith]

Mine are all over the place as far as time.