5 eggs from 4 hens?

[JLoner]

This morning we had 5 eggs from our 4 brown layers. They're relatively new layers (just got them at 19 weeks in April), one takes a day off now and then. Yesterday she did take a day off. But never has she laid 2 eggs in one day. Is this normal??

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It takes a little while to get all the glitches out of their system

 

[FluffyButtTikiHut]

This morning we had 5 eggs from our 4 brown layers. They're relatively new layers (just got them at 19 weeks in April), one takes a day off now and then. Yesterday she did take a day off. But never has she laid 2 eggs in one day. Is this normal??

Yeah, sometimes when they skip a day they carryover to the next day.

 

[Carla Maxwell]

I'm brand new at raising chickens and just joined this forum, but I have had five eggs from four chickens twice since I adopted my Isa Browns. I thought I might have overlooked an egg from a day before, but I keep track of how many eggs are laid each day and the five eggs came after days and days of four-eggs-a-day. I think it really did happen.

 

[JLoner]

Yeah, sometimes when they skip a day they carryover to the next day.

I always wondered if it could happen, but it's the first time it actually has! We had 3 days of a massive double yolker. I wonder if it was the same girl?

 

[JLoner]

It takes a little while to get all the glitches out of their system

It really does! I had no idea. It's such a fun thing for our whole family learning this stuff

 

[aart]

But never has she laid 2 eggs in one day.

Was the second egg a soft shell?
Not common for a bird to lay 2 hard shelled egg in a 24 hour period.

 

[JLoner]

Was the second egg a soft shell?
Not common for a bird to lay 2 hard shelled egg in a 24 hour period.

No, they were all hard shell, all very lovely eggs too, I should add!