Extreme Novice Question.

[cluckcluckluke]

Are you sure that she layed it at 5:00 in the afternoon? Because that's very rare and really only happens if the birds are stressed out and lay 2 in one day.... The only reason I say that is because chickens can't lay past 3:00, not enough light left in the day...

Yes well the owners are not very thoughtful of there hens, they brought them down to me (3hr trip) in a bag and it wasn't very breathable, so yes they were stressed and i think she had been holding it all day, so i dont think he laid 2 eggs in one day.

 

[Cindy in PA]

Are you sure that she layed it at 5:00 in the afternoon? Because that's very rare and really only happens if the birds are stressed out and lay 2 in one day.... The only reason I say that is because chickens can't lay past 3:00, not enough light left in the day...

Sorry, but this is not true. Hens need a certain amount of light stimulation to lay eggs, but they can & do lay at 5 pm. They won't normally lay at night, but they can finish laying after dark when the sun has gone down. In the summer they will lay even later.

 

[PrairieChickens]

My hens have been laying eggs late into the evening on a pretty regular basis for over a month now. It's not unusual lately for me to find a bird or two in the nests only an hour or two before sunset--one EE laid an egg as the sun was going down about a week ago, then hopped right onto a roost to go to bed. I don't know why they suddenly decided the evening hours were fair game for laying, but they did.