Ok 18 eggs from 14 chickens how is this possible?

[Chicksdigit]

Ok yesterday we gathered 9 eggs from our hens and today we had 18 eggs we have 15 hens and one is with her chicks so just 14 are laying I know they just lay one a day and 9 or 10 is the norm for our girls but today we got 18 .....any thoughts?

 

[chickenbottom]

maybe some layed late yesterday and you didnt get to collect those ones until the next day adding up to 18 maybe

 

[bargain]

I'd like some of those hens please

I've read of a bird that the hatcher said laid twice a day....

I'm going to go see if I can find that link!

 

[rhoda_bruce]

only you can tell me if I am wrong, but my guess is you checked the nests earlier than the hens were ready to call it a day. My theory.......all 14 laid, but you only picked up 9, and then 5 more laid eggs, just before dark. This morning they started up again and you checked your eggs later than yesterday and again all or most of the hens laid.....5 + 13 = 18 or 4 + 14 = 18
Or perhaps they moved the eggs around in the nesting litter, making finding it more difficult and today they surfaced

 

[Portia]

new math

 

[bigoakhunter]

Can you tell me what breed or breeds those hens are? ... I may have the wrong type. LOL

Probably the timing thing...but at the very least you have some hens that are producing a lot of eggs! Rock On...

 

[Chicksdigit]

I think that is probably right 13 one day and 14 the other.... I probably did gather them a little earlier yesterday anyway they are hitting on all the cylinders that means all of our pullets are laying I am certainly happy their production dropped last month when I started feeding the 17% pellets I went back to the 20% starter/grower and a self feeder of oyster shell and they are looking better and laying better and frankly I think they are acting happier hehe sounds funny but I think they are.

 

[Chicksdigit]

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8 are our original girls bought last November from Ideal We ordered different breeds 12 of them two Barred Rocks which was

because one of the barred Rocks was a Roo. I hatched another 11 out 6 months ago So all of the new girls are at least 1/2 Barred

Rock. In the first generation it looks like Barred Rock is Dominant over everything except White Leghorns. We have 4 White Leghorn

hens and there were 4 white leghorns hatched out of that batch. The Leghorns are laying machines they hardly ever miss even a

day. Big nice white eggs. Farm fresh white eggs are good, as well as brown ones.

 

[chickenbottom]

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they should be on layers if they are laying now not starter/grower starter is for the first few weeks like up to 5 or 6 weeks and grower is from then on till about 16 weeks. and i know what you mean about the leghorns are machines mine were crazy layers they are molting now so thats why no laying machines right now lol

 

[Keara]

I had RIRs who layed brown eggs twice a day I think it is common for them.