Can my hen lay this many eggs?

[Skye'sDucks]

The last two days my 1 year old Muscovy hen has laid 2 eggs per day, instead of just 1, and I thought nothing of it. Today I found 3 eggs in her nest...and am a little baffled. All three were fine, normal eggs. Can she lay that many? I've never experienced this with the other two times she's laid for me.

Could be she laid them at separate times...But even so, there were three eggs.

Thank you.

 

[Ridgerunner]

While it is theoretically possible for her system to mess up and lay multiple eggs they are usually not all normal. Her body makes a limited amount of some things, egg shell for example. The shells are usually thin or marked.

Are you sure you don't have a practical joker? Or were the extra eggs hidden and only gradually exposed. To me those are the most likely answers if the eggs are normal.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Muscovy's are some of the best egg hiders on the planet. Believe me I know I have had Muscovy since 2004. lol

 

[DuckyDonna]

Muscovy's are some of the best egg hiders on the planet. Believe me I know I have had Muscovy since 2004. lol

Will they move eggs after laying them? Just curious!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes and they love to gather any eggs close by too. I have used the pitch fork looking for eggs after using my shovel to clean out the poop and low and behold go in later or next day and see eggs they have dug up out of the deep bedding. Are you sure you don’t have two laying?

 

[Skye'sDucks]

I could have two laying...I don't know. That was my first thought. All my other girls are only a few months old, and I've been told that there's a possibility they can lay in the fall, so it could be one of them or a wild duck. They don't have a coop, but I leave their wings unclipped and let them free range, and her nest is easily accessible. (I have a golf ball in it, too, to encourage her to lay in the same spot)

I don't think they're joke eggs...Feeling them and washing them, they seemed perfectly normal, which was a little confusing. Her nest doesn't have very deep leaves/hay, mostly just a dip hollowed out in the dirt even though I did give her same hay, which she never used. And they were in the dip.

It's also possibly she laid one yesterday, or earlier in the night, and then two more...But even so, it would mean she laid two yesterday, and then three more, unless another duck is sharing the nest. I don't know if she found any eggs nearby, either.

 

[DuckyDonna]

My ducks all share a nest. Sometimes not but mostly they share the same one. I wonder how they decide who goes first?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Draw straws

 

[chickens really]

Sounds like two layers or she had her eggs covered..

 

[Skye'sDucks]

Found two eggs again this morning...

I'm thinking there could be a second layer, I don't know who it could be though.