Do chickens ever lay two eggs per day?

[Kim W]

I just made a post about this. I have 3 laying EE , and today I put one of my silkie rooster in with the hens because he was being mean to the other rooster. This afternoon, I collected the eggs and 2 of the hens each laid 2 eggs! Could the rooster been the cause of this? Maybe inducing ovulation?

 

[cmom]

They could have, but it's unusual but I have had it happen.

 

[luchen26]

my dad has one that will lay 2 a day. i didn't think it was possible, but unless we have feral chickens running around in this neck of the woods, it's the only possibility.

My hen lay 2 eggs today. This is the second time that happened during the past month!

 

[cmom]

It can happen now and then. Quite awhile back I got a huge egg from one of my birds. It was an egg inside an egg and both eggs were double yolks. It weighed 185 grams/6.5 ounces. A normal large egg is around 60 grams/2.1 ounces.

This is the egg next to a regular large egg.

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

I would have tried to hatch it .

 

[cmom]

I do hatch out a couple hundred plus chicks every year.