Unreal amount of eggs

[JJSS89]

This isn't uncommon from these hybridized production model chickens. It also means they only lay for a couple years and often die young from impaction or bleeding or they break bones because they produce unnatural amounts of large eggs and deplete calcium from their bones. Not your fault of course, just the way it is with them. They can only absorb so much calcium regardless of how much they eat.

I prefer to keep my line of Rhode Island Reds that lay for 4-5 years and are able to stay healthy without needing calcium supplements.

 

[CountryFlock]

I'm not surprised, Barred Rocks lay about 2 eggs a day about a week or so after the start laying. So 16 hens (including Barred Rocks) and then the 8 barred rocks are laying 2 a day so that is like 24 eggs but a few of the other hens might be laying 2 a day too. I used to get 2 eggs A DAY after my Camellia started laying (just by her).

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Wow, that's truly amazing! I've only had one hen that was a two a day girl, in 10 years of keeping chickens! She wasn't a production breed, but an EE/Japanese bantam mix. She laid the cutest little green eggs. At that point in my life I was a stay at home mom, so I'd gather eggs several times a day so I was sure they weren't left over from previous days, and she was my only bantam green egg layer I was always excited to find that second egg from her for the day. She continued to lay that way for a few years, even after I gifted her to a chicken friend as an addition to her bantam flock!