My hen is laying 3 eggs a day?!?

[LeeAnn]

My Americana hen just started laying and she is laying three eggs a day. How can she sustain that? It's been going on for 6 days! They are small (blue, ~2" tip to tip) eggs. Please advise. Thanks!

 

[cajunlizz]

are you sure ? never heard of anything like that . I heard hen laying 2 eggs a day , but thats still hard to believe .

Is she the ONLY HEN laying ?

 

[LeeAnn]

Well, she is the oldest. I have another Americana that is about a month younger and a Black Minorca that is also a month younger. Since the eggs are blue, I know it is not the Minorca. Plus, she is the one that is sitting on the nest and yesterday I kept checking back on her and saw the egg number increase from 1-3. Unless the younger one snuck in there in between my peeks, I think "Hazel" really is laying that many.

 

[toddy111]

No Way !!!!!!!! 3 - you are lucky !!!!

 

[banter]

Can you patent her??????????

 

[LeeAnn]

I know! But I worry about her health with that kind of output! She's our favorite!

 

[katrinag]

I bet the younger one slipped in and layed. I have never heard or seen a hen lay 3 eggs in a day. 2 yes but not 3.

 

[momofdrew]

Wow that is really overdrive...she must have an 'A' personality

 

[LeeAnn]

If that's the case, one of them is still prolific at two a day. But I really don't think that younger one is doing it. I checked every 10 minutes yesterday and Hazel didn't move from the nest. I'll have to put a sky cam in the backyard to really know for sure, I guess.

 

[Mourningdove]

It sounds to me that she needs to be on Ripely's Believe It Or Not !