Laying every other day

[chonsey]

Yep, but because of the Great Lake effect - we can be overcast and dark grey skies. Since I work early and feed them before sunrise, I may try adding light in the morning this winter! Thanks!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I'm in SE Michigan, not enough daylight, yet. You can put a light on a timer to give them more daylight that may help egg production. I used to have an Australop hen that laid eggs almost every day even in winter and I got the chick from a feed store (left over from someone else's order). I just started using Manna Pro that has Omega Egg Maker that may help boost your egg production & quality, also. I got it to help give me healthy eggs for healthy chicks for the Easter hatch!

I have a opossum that comes around every couple of days and is scaring my hens - they do not lay when their feathers are ruffled. It just killed my new 4 mth old Jersey Giant Rooster this morning when I was getting the water & feed ready. So I doubt I'll get any eggs today. I'm moving the live trap today to try and relocate it to the wooded area at the back end of the acreage to deter it away from my coop.

As op's birds are new layers, this is not likely a lighting issue, but this is good information for encouraging production from mature layers during spotty daylight times of year.

 

[driver]

A lot of you have missed the actual question. The OP's hen has laid an egg every single day, and they wonder if that is normal, vs. the every other day theory they thought they knew. So, they're not asking why their hen isn't laying every day - she is.

It's normal and it's fine. Mine tend to do like jthorton's do - lay an egg every day, but take a day off every week or two. Actually, I have 5 different breeds and they all are on a slightly different schedule. The two heaviest layers will only take a day off once every two weeks or so. The lightest layer only lays 4 or 5 days per week. They ALL lay more often than every other day.

 

[aart]

The OP's hen has laid an egg every single day,

Ummm, nope.

I got my first egg a week ago from my black sex link and every other day since.

 

[SW31]

I have an Andalouse or Limousine, nobody’s sure which she is, who has never really worked out what the egg laying is all about. When she does bother to lay it’s usually quite small whereas the Sussex lays most days and my two injured Marans, who were my best layers and are now almost healed, are laying every 48 hours. All four are approx eleven months old.