Magical Egg-Laying Hens!

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

You are not going to believe this - i don't. i have six Red Star hens in an enclosed coop and pen. Also have one EE in there who is just finishing a molt and has not started laying again.

i collect eggs every day - six big brown eggs every single day, rain or shine. i collected those six two days ago, i know i did. Then yesterday afternoon i go out and find TEN eggs. Well, i thought to myself, i must have missed some or forgotten them over the past few days. So i checked every nook and cranny in the six nest boxes and made sure those ten were it.

Then today i just went out and found EIGHT big brown eggs laid in plain sight in two of the nest boxes(?!?!?!?). How on earth is that possible? i am not making this up. i knew those Red Stars were egg-laying machines, but this is beyond belief.

Here is the booty from today (made a quiche from the ten i collected yesterday).

Here are some of those rockin' Reds. i used to complain about how pushy they were, but not complaining now!

 

[Catalina]

WOW!!

Congrats!

 

[what was i thinking]

wow that is great. your ee lays what color eggs? brown?
i wish i could get double out of mine.

 

[silkiechicken]

I love my sexlinks too! Egg laying machines for sure!!! But I just wish they'd slow down a bit, since so many of them end up with reproductive issues in their 2nd and 3rd years of life.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

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Oh no, what type of reproductive issues? Just wondering what i should look out for.

Also, from what i've read, they only produce an egg every 26 hours. Is it possible for them to lay more often that that? i just don't know how this is happening.

"what was I thinking" - my EE lays green eggs, so she isn't contributing to this onslaught of eggs.

 

[swtangel321]

WOW

Thats amazing.... CONGRATS !!!

 

[Omran]

Congratulations,

and Knock on wood, that is really ammaizing.

Omran.

 

[JennsPeeps]

My sexlink is my only layer. I

that bird!!

 

[crazy hen quartet]

WOW!

Ok, you have to update us daily on your numbers!

 

[scubagirl]

Thats excellent.

I watched one of my cochins the other day lay an egg, and then never get up to leave after about an hour I thought what is she doing going broody or something and I came close to her to offer some scratch she stood up hissing and out plopped a double yoker. Thats basically like laying 3 eggs in one day. Amazing what they can do sometimes.