Do hens typically lay their eggs in the a.m.??

[Liamm_1]

I have read the egg cycle is 25 hours. Whether different breeds vary, I don't know. My Sumatra pullet, who just started laying Monday has been almost right on the money 25 hours apart. 4 eggs in 4 days.
Monday: 8:15
Tuesday: 9:20
Wednesday: 10:30
Thursday: 12:15 (slight difference here)
I'm curious to see how her pattern develops, and also waiting to see when her 2 sisters begin to lay.

 

[mispollitos]

I let the rooster out to free range & she went back up into the nesting box...4 min before 10 a.m.

The rooster climbed on top of the box, the hen started making noise from inside the nesting box coop and he went away and she came out of the coop area down into where it's open(we have a tractor)...I went and checked and she had been making herself comfortable with the golf egg in the nesting box!!! So, now she's back up in the nesting box....I think we'll have an egg soon!

Then I'll let her out to free range and we'll be on a "schedule" yeah!

What i did realize this a.m. is that the eggs for the first week, we'll eat and not save because there was a naked neck rooster where she came from...I don't want naked neck chicks...not really...they're actually kinda growing on me

 

[sunshine23]

My Silver Cuckoo Maran has laid as late as 4 pm so I guess it depends on their cycle, my GLW is laying every 2 or 3 days around noon early afternoon but sometimes in the morning

 

[mispollitos]

another funny question...how long does it take them to lay an egg 1/2 an hour? hour??

 

[Fred's Hens]

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Really depends on the bird. I've some Reds that pop in and pop out, lightening fast. I've got Rock crosses that "meditate" in the box for what seems to be forever. There is no one rule on it.

 

[mispollitos]

1/2 an hour and we have a beautiful brown egg!!!!!!!!

Now, in a week, I'm going to let her lay an egg and accumulate them...how do I know for sure if she won't go broody? Will she leave the egg to get cold or??? What will I be looking for? Probably will make a simple homemade incubator in the mean time just in case she's not interested.

 

[dsqard]

Leaving eggs in the nest does not make a chicken go broody. Their hormones are what makes them go broody. Do a search on broody behaviors so you will know when one of your girls goes broody. Until they are broody, I would not leave eggs out there.

 

[steveg144]

Our Leghorn "Camilla" is the 3:15 Express. She lays her one pristine white egg every day at 3:15PM. Not 3:10, not 3:20. But 3:15 exactly. It's kind of ... creepy.

 

[sunshine23]

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that is freaky! lol

 

[duckking]

My Delaware just started laying...shell less eggs only so far, well the first 2

But she seems to do it at night? She was singing her heart out last night at 9pm! One of my RIRs has just started laying as well and she is a late morning, early afternoon layer. Her eggs are perfect, but still small. I had no idea that chickens were on a 25 hour cycle! I love this place. I learn something new every day.