6 Hens, 4 or 5 eggs??

[newchickymomma]

Hello! I have 6 Golden Sex Links/Red Production mix chickens. They started laying at week 20, just 3 of them. Now here we are at week 25 and 4 sometimes 5 will lay a day. What could cause the other one to not lay. But to add to the mystery, someone has twice laid a really big egg, double the size of the other eggs.

These are my first chickens ever so I don't know what could be going on. They free range after 5, but are in their run most of the day. Any help or advice will help. Thank you chicken friends.

 

[thebanthams]

This is very normal for them to lay eggs everyday or not. Sometimes the weather has something to do with it. I dont worry about it!, sometimes they can lay a big egg, with only one yolk, I got triple yolks one time !!

 

[Mountain Bear]

It may not be the same one not laying each day. I had this happen to my 5 hens, I would get 3 or 4 eggs a day for weeks. I just assumed they were laying them every day and a half. They are now 28 weeks old and I only get 5 eggs a day about half the time. I have never had an unusually large egg, I had one double yoke. They did start out small and now are about medium size eggs. My advice, just keep taking care of them and enjoy whatever eggs you get.

 

[mickey328]

It generally takes 24 to 36 hours to produce an egg, so many of them don't produce every single day. We have 6 red sl's and the pattern so far seems to be 5 eggs a day for 4 or 5 days, then a 3 egg day, a 4 egg day and then 5 again for a few days, and the cycle repeats.

 

[newchickymomma]

That's what it seems like here! Thanks everyone.