Do people lie about how many eggs they get??

[Minky]

Ok, so I am so tired of hearing this " I get an egg a day from all my hens" (in like January!!!!)
I have beautiful healthy free ranging hens- They get free choice pellets. BOSS almost every day/or every other day (about 1 cup maybe)? and daily kitchen scraps.
.....and I get about 10 eggs a day from 20 hens.Thats on a good day in sunny but cold March. In January? Maybe 4-5 a day.

I have 3 hens that are 2.5 yr old.
I have 15 hens that are 1.5 yr old
I have 2 hens that are almost 1 yr old.
I have (2)danish brown leghorn, (3)welsummer, (3)Silver Laced Wyandotte, (1)Cream Legbar and (11) Easter Eggers

On a really good day I would get 14-17. In spring. How are all these people getting an egg a day?????

 

[sylviethecochin]

I'm getting maybe one or two more than you are, with the same number of hens. It beats me how they do it. I do know someone who has red Sexlinks and gets an egg a day, feeding mostly corn. She says for ten hens, she goes through about a bag of allflock a month. I guess sexlinks are all they're touted to be—I just don't like them.

People with lights in their coops during the winter will get more eggs than you do.

I will say that Wyandottes were some of the worst egg-layers I've ever had, and that the Easter Eggers were pretty bad too.

 

[Minky]

Funny-
I agree with Wyandotte's- not an egg from them all winter- but my EE lay all year round, really well. And my Welsummers. The CLB is pretty good too. the danish brown leghorns arent great either.

Our light goes on at 5 am and off at 9 pm all year.
I dont like sexlinks either.

 

[blackandtan]

I get an egg a day....thirteen hens lol!
Seriously though I usually light the coop in winter and they do alright, but they’re old gals now and I’m fairly certain some have completely retired. I don’t tell dh that though cause he thinks they should be for the pot when they slow down

 

[rosemarythyme]

Eggs in winter for me are like unicorns... they don't exist. At all. I don't supplement lighting though.

Out of 7 hens I get 2 to 4 eggs a day from spring to fall. 3 of my hens are older and one's more or less retired, of the 4 younger ones, one is special needs and only lays a few times a year.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I get around 9 a day now from 27 adult birds. Some of mine are breeds known to lay poorly, some are well over 4 years old so for me it is breed and age cutting into my numbers.
Even when I had all young birds of decent egg laying breeds I still rarely got 75% or better.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

I’m not really the best person to answer this question as I’m not exactly sure how many birds I have! But I would guess around thirty. This includes roosters and since guineas that don’t lay and younger birds. I usually get over a dozen a day.

 

[Halfpasthen]

Ok, so I am so tired of hearing this " I get an egg a day from all my hens" (in like January!!!!)
I have beautiful healthy free ranging hens- They get free choice pellets. BOSS almost every day/or every other day (about 1 cup maybe)? and daily kitchen scraps.
.....and I get about 10 eggs a day from 20 hens.Thats on a good day in sunny but cold March. In January? Maybe 4-5 a day.

I have 3 hens that are 2.5 yr old.
I have 15 hens that are 1.5 yr old
I have 2 hens that are almost 1 yr old.
I have (2)danish brown leghorn, (3)welsummer, (3)Silver Laced Wyandotte, (1)Cream Legbar and (11) Easter Eggers

On a really good day I would get 14-17. In spring. How are all these people getting an egg a day?????

Age, breed, daylight .. lots of factors. Lol I don't think anyone is lying about their eggs. I am a novice chicken keeper so take this with a serious grain of salt. My amberlink lays every single day. She is young and days are getting long. Previous owner said she laid really sporadically
Have you considered that your birds may be hiding eggs since they free range?

 

[chrissynemetz]

I've had chickens my whole life, and I've only had two hens who laid every single day. One was a barred Rock and the other was a cuckoo Marans.

 

[Minky]

No, because we've had 2 feet of snow since late November. LOL