Do first time layers.....

[harleyjo]

Do first time layers always lay in the morning? I got my first egg yesterday while I was at work. Now today I am home and I heard the egg song a few hours ago and I did get an egg. I don't know if it is the same girl as yesterday or if this is a different one. I didn't know if some more could lay yet this afternoon or what.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Not usually. It takes roughly 25 hours to make an egg. So they can start in the morning, then it gradually gets later everyday until it's too late to lay so they skip that day and start over the next morning.

 

[chicmom]

I don't think so, at least not all of them. I have 16 hens, and most do lay their eggs before I get home from work at 5pm, but then there is one hen who lays hers later. I collect the eggs after work, and then at night, when I go to do the headcount and lock up, because they free range, I usually see one or two eggs in the nest.....

 

[harleyjo]

I knew that but I wondered when they lay for the first time, is it in the morning?

 

[gryeyes]

Not necessarily.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I've had my new layers start at different times of the day. Most of them laid their first egg in the afternoon, because all the "regular" ladies were in the boxes in the morning.

 

[isabrownmom]

My five all lay in the morning usually before 10 a.m.

 

[mchl]

I got two new layers one lays in the morning the other lays in afternoon.

 

[DKM]

I got my first egg yesterdaye and it was in the afternoon. I got my second egg today and it was also in the afternoon. I'm so thrilled they started laying!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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