I am curious..

[Hedgeland Farms]

When are your ladies done laying for the day??

I get my last eggs around 4pm!!!
I feel like that's a bit late in the day, but heck I really dont know!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

I think it's around 4 right now too. It's such a light dependent thing that summer is a different story, maybe last egg around 6 and then usually a girl in a box when I open up the coop in the morning in summer too but not right now. Egg production has slowed down dramatically around here.

 

[Sussex19]

I think my latest one was a round 5pm?
What quite often seems to happen, is that they lay their eggs every 25 or 26 hours, so it gets a bit later ever day until it gets reset and they lay next morning instead.

 

[KreetchaKeepa]

The latest I've found an egg is at last check before their bedtime. So 1/2 hour before they go in for the night, I've gathered a warm egg. That's happened about 5 times since August.

 

[3KillerBs]

My chickens lay at any time during the daylight hours.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

Here I thought my girls were weird lol!!!
Thanks guys!

 

[Acre4Me]

Sometimes we find an egg at bedtime, after we’ve done the 4/5pm egg check (mostly out of habit -walk in the run area and check the nest boxes out of habit). Almost never any eggs after mid-afternoon, but we do a nest box check at bedtime bc it is a good way to see if anyone is broody, or bring picked on (therefore hiding in nest box rather than roosting).

 

[WIchickMama]

My chickens lay at any time during the daylight hours.

This is us too, and sometimes I get an egg when I open up in the morning.

 

[igorsMistress]

It takes roughly 25 hours for an egg to form, so you may see the time of day change throughout the week. I can reliably go out midweek and find no eggs at lunch, but that all have laid that day by dinner. By the weekend one or two gals might be in the nest box first thing in the morning.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

This is us too, and sometimes I get an egg when I open up in the morning.

Usually if I open up any later than 530 I have 3 eggs waiting for me too lol