16 eggs from 15 hens? Your thoughts please

[marlo1968]

I have 15 hens, 10 white leghorns and 5 red stars (also have 9 chicks). Every day I get 14-15 eggs, normally 10 are white and 4-5 are brown. On a rare occasion I only get 9 white. Anyway, yesterday I got 6 brown and 10 white. On Tuesday there were 15 eggs, so I know I didn't miss one the day before. I thought each chicken laid at most one egg each day. I know that sometimes a hen will miss a day. Any ideas? Has anyone else had this happen? Is this a normal occurance?

Thanks all

 

[shadowmane]

I've had people tell me hens can lay two eggs a day, but I've always thought that was on old wives tale.

 

[StarLover21]

My white leghorns has layed two eggs in one day once, one very early in the morning, one in the afternoon. So yes, I would say it is possible, especially because you have white leghorns, the queens of egg laying! I've seen it happen on here other times, too.

 

[Oakieridge]

I used to think the same "one egg per hen per day" but we had 3 cuckoo marans hens and we got 4 eggs twice in one week from that pen. I know we didn't miss any and we pen our birds by breed so no it couldn't have been another hen in there, lol.