Multiple eggs from one hen each day...

[Nonny]

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80 in "chicken years" maybe?

 

[greenkalki]

Every morning and evening when I open or shut the coop, I check for eggs. Yesterday morning when I opened the coop, there were no eggs. When I closed the coop last night, there were three eggs. Now I only have three Cochins in this coop, and one of them is a rooster. So, ruling out the rooster, that means I got three eggs from two hens in a roughly twelve hour period. Two eggs were brown, and one was white (and smaller than the brown ones). The larger of the two hens has not laid since raising a batch of chicks, so my guess is that the two brown eggs are hers, and her first new egg may have been blocked and subsequently pushed out by the second. That's my only explanation, short of a magic fairy hen that sneaks into my coop to lay eggs.