How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[blueseal]

9 from 20 pullets that just started laying 3 weeks ago

6 brown eggs

3 white eggs

 

[blobear23]

9/14 all brown. The 4 "teenager" are 16 weeks today. Hopefully soon!

 

[Melinda48]

They will lay a little later in the day than they laid the day before. How much later depends on the individual bird's cycle. When the time they lay falls after about an hour before they start thinking about going to roost, whenever sunset is for your area, they will hold that egg until the next morning. So from your perspective, they will not have laid an egg that day. This is what a 26 hour cycle might look like on a day that the sun rises at 7am and sets around 7pm.
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I recently posted a chart of my girls' laying habits. I call them blocks... the longer the block, the shorter the daily laying cycle and the more days in a row of laying an egg they can fit in between days off. Of course there are other factors... like, how many birds are trying to use the nest box, and where each bird is in the pecking order. Interruptions will delay the laying time. Changes in sunrise and sunset affect how many days in a row a chicken will lay... shorter days means it is more likely that sunset will interrupt the cycle more frequently, which on a weekly tally causes more "days off" Variables in health and environment can affect their reliability as well... Diet or improper nutrient absorption can cause irregular laying, molting affects laying... temperatures swings and fluctuations, sometimes. If it's too cold out, and your chickens spend more energy keeping warm, than making eggs, it will lengthen their cycle. If it's too hot, and your birds are working on staying hydrated, they'll reserve water by not laying as often. Even a cat or dog nosing around their coop and run will throw them off because they'll opt not to hit the nest to lay at the time they would have otherwise...

 

[Melinda48]

Thanks for the terrific information and the chart. Very very helpful!

 

[wasntme]

I got none.

Still waiting for the girls to start laying. Should be any day now. It's like waiting for Santa to come. lol Other days I feel like Charlie Brown walking around with his halloween bag and saying, "I got a rock."

 

[beechick]

Yesterday I got 11 eggs, the most ever, since we got our flock on the 4th of July. There are 30 chickens total: 5 one-year-old hens, 22 pullets, (the pullets are 22 weeks old) two six-month-old bantams and 3 five-week-old babies. Obviously, some of the pullets are laying. Yay

 

[saracalderas]

I got none.  :/   Still waiting for the girls to start laying. Should be any day now. It's like waiting for Santa to come. lol  Other days I feel like Charlie Brown walking around with his halloween bag and saying, "I got a rock." 

 

Lol!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I got 4 today so far. 3 brown and one white.2 brown on the floor in the corner of the coop and 2 in the same nest box. I have 12 but not all of them are laying yet. One day I will go check on the eggs a find 12 out there

 

[blobear23]

6/14 all brwn

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I got 6/12 Found the 6th one when I went to give fresh water. Don't know how long it was out there. 5 brown one white