2 eggs in a day?!

[Chold05]

We normally let our 6 hens free range most of the day but because we just planted grass, we’ve kept them in the run for about a week. They’re 7 months old and have been laying since August.

Yesterday we let them out supervised and our ISA brown layed an egg in our garden right before our eyes! Around 3pm. The egg wasn’t her normal brown color.

Later that night we tucked everyone in at 8pm and the same chicken hopped into the nest box. About an hour later I went back to check and she was still in there and layed another egg! The shell was very thin.

Anyone else have experience with their girls laying 2 eggs in a day? We recently started transitioning their feed from Country Road crumbles to Nutrawise pellets. Always access to oyster shell and we wash&crush the used egg shells, too. Which they love! Could it be the feed or the transition into fall/winter? Or maybe she was just backed up... The varying of color in the egg seem strange for our little Tillie.

normal egg, 1st egg yesterday and 2nd egg yesterday

 

[azygous]

Producing two eggs in a single egg cycle is more common that folks think. It can also signal a hen that may be heading for trouble - egg binding and infection.

Your hen has narrowly escaped reproductive grief this time, but it would be a good idea, and you're fortunate to have identified her, to head off a possibly developing problem with a calcium supplement.

it's amazing what one calcium tablet for a few days can do. It doesn't just help the hen to build better egg shells. It also helps to regulate her cycle.

Oyster shell and layer feed aren't enough sometimes. Some hens may have difficulty absorbing adequate calcium from the sources you've provided. So I bought a bottle of calcium citrate, minimum 500mg with D3 (Walmart vitamin aisle) and I keep it in the run. One tablet per day until your hen is laying one egg a day and the shell quality is good. Then you can stop.

If this hen ever appears to be in a nest for several hours, or if she's lethargic and standing around, or squatting with her tail held low, it could signal a stuck egg. A calcium tablet can help her with strong contractions to expel the egg.

 

[Chold05]

Producing two eggs in a single egg cycle is more common that folks think. It can also signal a hen that may be heading for trouble - egg binding and infection.

Your hen has narrowly escaped reproductive grief this time, but it would be a good idea, and you're fortunate to have identified her, to head off a possibly developing problem with a calcium supplement.

it's amazing what one calcium tablet for a few days can do. It doesn't just help the hen to build better egg shells. It also helps to regulate her cycle.

Oyster shell and layer feed aren't enough sometimes. Some hens may have difficulty absorbing adequate calcium from the sources you've provided. So I bought a bottle of calcium citrate, minimum 500mg with D3 (Walmart vitamin aisle) and I keep it in the run. One tablet per day until your hen is laying one egg a day and the shell quality is good. Then you can stop.

If this hen ever appears to be in a nest for several hours, or if she's lethargic and standing around, or squatting with her tail held low, it could signal a stuck egg. A calcium tablet can help her with strong contractions to expel the egg.

Thank you for the insight! I will definitely get the calcium tablet today!

 

[aart]

We recently started transitioning their feed from Country Road crumbles to Nutrawise pellets.

What are the protein and calcium percentages of both these feeds?

Always access to oyster shell and we wash&crush the used egg shells, too. Which they love!

Do you mix the egg shells in with the oyster shells....and are they consuming them?