new egg production question

[Mandolynn81]

our 6 month old girls are new layers. one hen (rooster - plymouth rock) has laid an egg a day for 3 weeks, the other (belina - buff orphington) is just a 4 days in and every day. will this egg production continue every day, or will it start to drop off?

 

[rosemarythyme]

Some layers are superstar producers but as the average egg cycle is 26 hours or so, they'll eventually miss a day. I don't think I've ever had a bird lay more than a week straight. Obviously things like molting, shortened winter daylight hours, stress, broodiness will slow or temporarily stop laying.

 

[aart]

one hen (rooster - plymouth rock) has laid an egg a day for 3 weeks,

Don't understand what the reference to a rooster is for?
Had a high production cross(EE x Amberlink) lay 49, 34, 20, 6, 13, 6, 14 day stretches(with one day off between) right out of the gate. She was a super layer, didn't live long tho.

 

[Halfpasthen]

Don't understand what the reference to a rooster is for?
Had a high production cross(EE x Amberlink) lay 49, 34, 20, 6, 13, 6, 14 day stretches(with one day off between) right out of the gate. She was a super layer, didn't live long tho.

I think Rooster is the name of the hen lol. I had to reread that twice.

 

[aart]

I think Rooster is the name of the hen lol. I had to reread that twice.

Ah.....you may be correct, since the other bird was described the same way.

 

[Perris]

how to confuse people: call a hen rooster!

 

[Mandolynn81]

Oh sorry! Rooster is her name. She was a scraggly mean thing when she was a chick. I put in quotations in the other post lol