Midnight Layers...

[misschickenlover]

Does anyone else have chickens who consistently lay in the middle of the night!! every day when i go to open up the coop in the morning (usually around 5) there is ALWAYS an egg waiting for me, and its usually cold!!

 

[Bluechick2u]

Mine lay in the late evening sometimes, as if they were too busy during the day to stop and go sit in the box.

 

[chicks are life]

I had night layers who would lay at night when roosting...their eggs would crack and then they would be eaten so my chickens started eating eggs but then they some how stopped and layer in the boxes.

 

[aart]

Does anyone else have chickens who consistently lay in the middle of the night!! every day when i go to open up the coop in the morning (usually around 5) there is ALWAYS an egg waiting for me, and its usually cold!!

How old are your birds?
How long have they been laying?
How many birds and how many nests?

I've seen bird lay off roost when new layers and/or when there's a pecking order thing going on over the nests.

 

[GC-Raptor]

I find an egg in nest at 5 a.m. 2/3 times a week, and 1 under roosts 3/4 times a month. I have 3 inches of straw under roosts, so egg is unbroken unless they land on it, jumping off roosts. It's dark here this time of year at 5 a.m. . I check for eggs after sunset when I lock up. My 5 hens are 16 months old. GC

 

[misschickenlover]

mine have a fav nesting box and if that is full (the meaning of full here is 3 chicke

How old are your birds?
How long have they been laying?
How many birds and how many nests?

I've seen bird lay off roost when new layers and/or when there's a pecking order thing going on over the nests.

1. my birds are 20 wks and 5 days (they started laying at 15 and a half wks!! - talk abt early birds )
2. abt 5 wks
3. 9 birds in 3 nests... ]