Do chickens ever lay two eggs per day?

[cmom]

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Double-yolk eggs occur when ovulation occurs too rapidly, or when one yolk becomes joined with another yolk. These eggs may be the result of a young hen's productive cycle not yet being synchronized or ovulation is triggered by the hen laying the egg and two yolks are released at the same time to travel down the oviduct together, being surrounded by one shell and giving us the double yolker. They're occasionally laid by a heavy-breed hen, often as an inherited trait.

 

[Forrest_Flock]

wow
kinda like girls' stuff
perhaps I do not want to go there

do production hens lay them?

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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I've read a number of studies on egg production times. The higher performance hens will have an egg cycle just over 24 hours and lay a large number of eggs per clutch before taking a break. There are some that will lay in a cycle that is less than 24 hours but they don't sustain it for very long and will take a break of a day or two quite frequently, leading to overall reduced egg production. Such high performance is the result of selective breeding, but as the saying goes "You can't fool Mother Nature."

 

[motheroffive]

I just gathered 9 eggs from 8 hens! First time that's happened that I know of. Usually they lay anywhere from 3 to 7 so I didn't even know that they were all laying yet, but now I know.

 

[Legbarlady]

Hi there

Our old girl (4yrs) cream legbar is definitely laying 2 a day and has been for a week up to now. She is the only one that lays blue eggs so we know for sure that she is. She never lays through the winter anyway but has had a bit of a spurt showing the younger 3 how to do it. My brother doesn't believe us so I was checking the internet to see who else's do so I can show him in print.

 

[sandesnow]

We currently have 2 hens and about 2 times a week we will get 3 eggs on those days. Early lays (by about 6:00 am) then a late egg laid in the evening. (10 pm?) I am convinced they are both doing this, as 10pm to 6am is just too short of a time span, I would think, to produce another egg. They use the same place to lay, so figuring out who is doing what is a bit tricky.

Our girls are Golden Comets and they are (March 26th 2014 will be) a year old. At this point, it is a normal occurrence for us. lol We have only had 2 Dbl Yoker size eggs. One was a double, the other was a huge single yolk.




This last one was a single huge yolk. The size of their regular eggs are jumbo's.

 

[lazy gardener]

I have a black sex link that laid several eggs/day several days/week when she first started laying. She once laid 2 rubber eggs followed by a normal egg in a 24 hour period. It's not normal, but it does happen. I've also heard of hens who frequently lay 2 eggs/day.

 

[klangsley]

This just happened to us today. For sure our chicken Mary Helen laid two eggs today . . . and yes, she is a young Barred Rock hen, hatched October 1, 2013 or thereabouts. We think that's totally amazing!

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Yeah I had two I strongly suspected came from one hen, because each of my nine hens lays a completely different looking egg, and these two were identical, and I'm SURE I checked that box last thing at night.

I also had a young Maran hen, tiny wee thing really, we call her Audrey after Audrey Hepburn, lay a normal egg Thursday, then no egg Friday, which was unusual because she's usually once a day, then a monstrous double yolked egg Saturday, so I was assuming that was Friday and Saturday combined somehow. Soft boiled delicious.

 

[RissyMcD]

Whew! I thought was going crazy. My bantam started laying only this week and i've gotten two in a day from her. I know they're hers because they're so tiny compared to the regular sized hens. I was so confused as to who might be laying egggs to match hers! Lol.