Stupid question by a newbie

[Sisters Farms]

do chickens only lay eggs at night?

 

[petrel]

Mine seem to prefer late morning to early afternoon.

 

[emmyeagle]

Mine lay in the morning. I go out at 7ish & find a duck egg and 1-2 chicken eggs. Go out again around noon & have a couple more. I think they sleep all night.

 

[donrae]

Chickens don't lay eggs at night, not normally. Early AM seems to be the most common time. IIRC it takes 26 hours to form an egg---not sure if that's correct so don't quote me. So, they usually lay a little later each day until they take a day off, then start in the morning again.

 

[KGreene]

I have an RSL that lays about 04:00 (from the roost). She did this previously and I thought I had broken her from it... but now she's at it again. My other RSL lays about 08:00 every day (in the nest box)... both of these hens have laid an egg a day since they began laying in and have not taken a day off (14 eggs a week from the two) even after the days got shorter and much colder. My other hens all lay between 08:00-10:00.

 

[Sisters Farms]

Thank ya'll. we just had our first egg this morning. So i didn't know what time they lay. I was surprised at where it was because I had never seen any of the hens in that area of the coop. And of course it was not in the nesting box