*2* eggs per day per chicken??

[bantymum]

wow, my friend has Isa browns who are doing exactly the same thing, hers are only young as well. But we are in Australia so they arent from the same batch!!!!!I wonder what is going on.
Battery farms here use dear little Isa browns due to their excellent laying credentials, so it must be in the gene!

 

[rosyposyosy]

MY BANTY COCHIN LAID 2 EGGS TODAY!! SHE WILL BE 5 MONTHS IN A WEEK OR 2. I FOUND AN EGG IN THE RUN FROM YESTERDAY, AND WHEN I LET THEM OUT I SAW HER IN THE NESTING BOX ON TOP OF AN EGG, AND THEN, JUST NOW, I COULDNT FIND THE CHICKENS AND I WENT TO THE COOP AND SHE WAS ON YET ANOTHER EGG!!COCHINS ARE ONLY SUPPOSED TO LAY 2 A WEEK, THIS WAS HER FIRST WEEK (EVER!!) LAYING, AND SHES ALREADY LAID 5!! LET THE LAYING BEGIN!!

 

[bantymum]

rosyposy, she must be a really happy girl!! well done.

 

[Alleyoops25]

You all know that I am a 4-H leader, and Lead kids in poultry. In the project books, that teaches kids everything about chickens. it says that chickens cant lay but one egg a day. But I to have a couple hens that lay two eggs a day also. I know they do for the fact that we put our hens in a rabbit hutch by them selves for a week just to see how many of the hens were steady layers. And three of them layed two eggs each day. These were mixed bred hens, and I am not sure what they are mixed with. But it fine by me if they want to lay more than one egg a day.

 

[BIG-BIRD]

it happened to me a couple of years ago, I had 8 hens, I went out on a winter cold day, and from the day before I got 8 eggs then the next morning there was 11 eggs and could not believe my eyes.

 

[ClareScifi]

I am happy to have found this old thread that discusses chickens who lay multiple eggs per day! I was sorry to hear about the one who laid 4 a day who later developed infections.

Did any of the multiple-laying chickens survive and thrive, or have they all succumbed to peritonitis and egg-binding by now? Has anyone ever heard of a chicken with this tendency to lay more than one egg per day who overcame it, and if so, what method was used to help her stop laying more than one egg per day.

Is there a diet that works for this?

Thanks so much for your help,

Clare

 

[jason_mazzy]

I have 2 female ducks. I get 2 eggs per day on average. I get 3 eggs per day at least 1 time a month and many times 2-3 times a month.

 

[ClareScifi]

Good to know. Is daily multiple-egg laying more common in ducks than chickens? Some folks in the Emergency/Diseases section of this board are trying to convince me it's not possible for a chicken to lay 2 eggs in one day, but even the new edition of the Storey Guide to Raising Chickens, by Gail Dameroux talks about the phenomena.

Do your ducks seem healthy? Do you think they have peritonitis, or is this just typical duck behavior, laying more than one egg?

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

I had a gold comet hen who started laying, and it took 2 weeks between the first and second egg: but when that second egg came, she layed another with it: 2 in one day as well! She was later sold though because she literally started only laying about once every 3 weeks...she was malfunctioning, lol.

 

[ClareScifi]

BigDaddysGurl,

That is interesting about the gold comet. Did both of the eggs she laid that one day have nice, strong shells?

Just now I found something interesting on Barred Rocks. My chickens are Plymouth Rocks. It said the Black Rocks tend to have a lot of vigor and are good shell-makers. From whatI've read, it's highly unusual for a chicken to lay solidly-shelled eggs, when she lays 2 eggs a day. Usually, when a chicken lays 2 eggs a day, one of them is soft-shelled. But my chickens' eggs have both had nice hard shells.

I was reading that Black Rocks (I assume that is what my Barred Rocks are? They are black and white?) tend to be really good outputters of calcium and good layers into old age. It said that their ability to make good, strong shells helps actually protect them from peritonitis more than other breeds, because they don't tend to lay the shell-less eggs internally that other breeds are prone to, so much. So now I feel a bit more hopeful as to Esther's prognosis.

Clare