Best start to 2021!! Cornish layers?! 🤔

[OllieBollie]

Happy New Year everyone,
We have a flock of 6 Cornish cross chickens that are 6 months old. Today we had a surprise when we found 2 eggs in their coop. We didn’t expect eggs so soon or really much at all since they’re not really layer chickens. I’m so proud of my girls! Such a great surprise!!
Do they typically lay eggs in the mornings, or can they lay any time of day?
Is there anything else we should be doing now since they’re starting to lay?

Thanks in advance for the tips!
- Proud Chicken Mom

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Happy New Year everyone,
We have a flock of 6 Cornish cross chickens that are 6 months old. Today we had a surprise when we found 2 eggs in their coop. We didn’t expect eggs so soon or really much at all since they’re not later chickens. I’m so proud of my girls! Such a great surprise!!
Do they typically lay eggs in the mornings, or can they lay any time of day?
Is there anything else we should be doing now since they’re starting to lay?

Thanks in advance for the tips!
- Proud Chicken Mom

Transition them to layer feed.
You give them plenty of exercise, right?

 

[OllieBollie]

Transition them to layer feed.
You give them plenty of exercise, right?

Yes, we did switch to layer feed last month. They do get lots of exercise. Their run is quite large and I scatter feed in spots all around it so they can explore. They also free range in our yard when able to.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

If I may ask...how many roosters to how many hens?

 

[CNJ]

My hens take turn laying through out the day............I have five laying hens, 2 Australorp, 2 Jersey Giant, and 1 Buff Orpington. They lay 5 eggs on one day and 3 eggs on another, they alternate between 5 and 3.

 

[HappyDuckie]

My cx girl laid the other day, too. What color were yours?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Happy New Year everyone,
We have a flock of 6 Cornish cross chickens that are 6 months old. Today we had a surprise when we found 2 eggs in their coop. We didn’t expect eggs so soon or really much at all since they’re not really layer chickens. I’m so proud of my girls! Such a great surprise!!
Do they typically lay eggs in the mornings, or can they lay any time of day?
Is there anything else we should be doing now since they’re starting to lay?

Thanks in advance for the tips!
- Proud Chicken Mom

My Cornish cross didn't lay tell she was over a years old. She lays eggs so big they barely fit in the egg carton or the incubator! Do yours lay in a nest boxes? Keep the girls active. Let them free range and make sur they don't just sit around and eat. They can breed naturally with light weight Roos. My hen breeds with a stander NN.

 

[HappyDuckie]

My cx girl laid the other day, too. What color were yours?

Mine laid right at five months.

 

[OllieBollie]

If I may ask...how many roosters to how many hens?

We have 2 roosters and 4 hens. The two roosters are now in half of the coop while the girls are in the other half, with a wall between them. The roosters were bullying.

 

[OllieBollie]

My cx girl laid the other day, too. What color were yours?

Our eggs were brown. What color did you girl lay?