Should Laverne & shirley each lay an egg a day?

[aart]

As a new lover of chickens, I was wondering if I should expect and egg from each one a day? They were given to us a month of so ago and are a bit over a year old.

Some days I only get one egg. I would say 5 days out of 7 I get 2 eggs a day, one from each. They have access to the actual covered
and coop all day long from the run. Also sometimes the eggs are early in the day and sometimes not until late late afternoon.
They seem very healthy and happy and run to all of us for treats each day.

Our little 8 Chicklets are 6 weeks old today and we will be adding them to the other two next weekend when they are 7 weeks
old. I hope that is not too young. I do have two silkies out of that 8 that I will keep inside for another 2 or so weeks as they are
smaller.

Be Well,
Jonnie

That may be too young....although adding 8 to 2 might change that. Usually folks wait until the littles are the about same size as the adults at maybe 3 months old.

Read up on integration, there's lots of ways to do it depending on your coop/run size, confined or free range, numbers and ages of birds, etc, etc.
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[Ridgerunner]

Aart buddy, what breeds are you raising? I've yet to see 3 month-olds as big as their parents. What are you feeding those chicks?

There are a lot of good articles on integration, but unfortunately you will find a lot of conflicting information in them. That’s because so many different things work, we have different conditions, and we do things so many different ways.

I’ve had a broody hen wean her chicks at 3 weeks of age, but she had lived with them 24/7 and spent 3 weeks teaching the other chickens to leave her babies alone. That’s unusually young. One time I had a broody hen that could not get one chick to follow her out of the coop, so at 4 to 5 days of age she abandoned it and took the rest of her brood outside. The hens coming in to lay walked right by that chick. I fully expected one of them to kill it, but none did. It took close to another week for that chick to learn to follow Mama outside. In many flocks, that chick would have wound up dead.

As Aart said, there are a tremendous number of different factors to consider. I think one of the really big ones is space, thought they are all important. If you have lots of space you can generally integrate at a fairly young age. If space is tight, you might be better off waiting until 4 months, not just 3.

 

[CrazyChickGirl]

I would wait at least a few more weeks, preferably 3 or 4 months like the other posters said. We thought we were doing everything right.... Have the chicks live next to, but separated by hardware cloth with the older girls so they could get used to each other. Slowly integrating while we watched closely and then finally letting them sleep together in the coop. Lots of free range space, coop has just enough space. The littles were 8 weeks old. On the second morning when we were really feeling at ease, we found one little guy scalped in the corner when we let them out of the coop. Be careful!

 

[aart]

Aart buddy, what breeds are you raising? I've yet to see 3 month-olds as big as their parents. What are you feeding those chicks?

There are a lot of good articles on integration, but unfortunately you will find a lot of conflicting information in them. That’s because so many different things work, we have different conditions, and we do things so many different ways.

I’ve had a broody hen wean her chicks at 3 weeks of age, but she had lived with them 24/7 and spent 3 weeks teaching the other chickens to leave her babies alone. That’s unusually young. One time I had a broody hen that could not get one chick to follow her out of the coop, so at 4 to 5 days of age she abandoned it and took the rest of her brood outside. The hens coming in to lay walked right by that chick. I fully expected one of them to kill it, but none did. It took close to another week for that chick to learn to follow Mama outside. In many flocks, that chick would have wound up dead.

As Aart said, there are a tremendous number of different factors to consider. I think one of the really big ones is space, thought they are all important. If you have lots of space you can generally integrate at a fairly young age. If space is tight, you might be better off waiting until 4 months, not just 3.

Why I added the disclaimer 'maybe' . ;-)