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[Cassandra]

14 hours, really? That would put them at almost two a day and even pretty high production egg layers only lay one a day. I don't know how that applies to commercial chickens, tho. I guess you can engineer a chicken to do anything if you're smart enough and have enough money.

Cassandra

 

[hooligan]

I got two today from Bridgette. We checked the egs at about 6pm last night and at 5 pm today we had two from her.

 

[Crazy4Chicks]

one a day -- or in my case when ever the girls feel like it LOL i have 9 hens and get only maybe 6-7 a day so somebody is slacking off around here


Julie

 

[arlee453]

From wikipedia's chicken page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken

On average, a chicken lays one egg a day for a number of days (a "clutch"), then does not lay for one or more days, then lays another clutch. Originally, the hen presumably laid one clutch, became broody, and incubated the eggs. Selective breeding over the centuries has produced hens that lay more eggs than they can hatch. Some of this progress was ancient, but most occurred after 1900. In 1900, average egg production was 83 eggs per hen per year. In 2000, it was well over 300.

MY COMMENTS:

While it's not IMPOSSIBLE for a chicken to lay more than one egg in a day, it is very UNUSUAL, even with manipulation of light etc.

 

[Barnyard]

well you could be like me and go from getting 6 to getting 2 everybody decided they needed to go broody or needed to molt

I agree though, 1 egg a day!

 

[amazondoc]

I don't know the maximum absolute possible within a 24 hour period, but I do know the world's record layer over 1 year laid 364 eggs -- an average of one a day.

 

[Nichole77]

One day I got 3 from one hen, sort of. I got 2 shell less eggs that were attached and then an hour or so later I got 1 normal egg. And I know who did it because I only have 4 layers and they each have distinctive eggs.

 

[silkiechicken]

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I agree, like fraternal twins or triplets, not impossible, but can be relatively unusual, that multiple eggs in a human make it down and turn into babies rather than in the chickens case, get laid as an egg... guess that would be like a doubble or tripple yolker!

 

[snowydiamonds]

not only does light factor in but also cleanliness because out of my 8 hens (RIR's) one day of the week I'll get 4 eggs, the rest of the week I'll get 6-9 eggs but every Saturday when I clean their nestboxes and bedding on the ground, I get 9 eggs that day, every time! The only exception was the five days I spent in Fairbanks w/my dog for surgery- upon arrival at home, I immediately cleaned the coop and that day ---Get this!--- I got 11 eggs from the 8 girls (one hen has big spurs but lays eggs so she's a she, not a he)--modified to say "get" instead of "bet"

 

[arwmommy]

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Wow Silkie! Here, after going through years of fertility treatments to get my two kids and I didn't even realize that humans ovulate and lay an egg on average once every 24 -36 hours!

OK, just teasing, I knew what you meant, but seriously folks, like the human cycle, which is once every 24-32 days (for an average of a 28 day cycle), chickens ovulate with or without a man around, but if you want babies you need a rooster (or whatever you call your DH).