WAHH! No egg today from my leghorn

[cravenchx]

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Must have been between 2:20 and 4:40 today!
The first ONE!

 

[DebbieDee]

Happy for you!!!

 

[gryeyes]

Think of it this way, hens and pullets take approximately 26 hours to "build" an egg ready to be laid. The shell alone takes 19 hours of that time. (Which is one of the things that often takes a while for pullets to "get right" as their bodies start laying. It is not uncommon for an occasional egg to be laid without a shell when pullets first start. Takes a couple of weeks to get it all working smoothly.)

So, if she laid an egg at 0700, the next day she'd lay one around 0900, the third around 1100, the fourth around 1300, the fifth around 1500. She may or may not lay on the sixth day or the seventh because it's gotten too late to lay that day, so that "too late" egg gets laid early the morning after the skipped day. And the cycle begins again.

Not all breeds are "every day" layers. But those which are, do run into the skipped day on a regular cycle, usually within a week.

 

[bobbieschicks]

Looks like today might be the skipped day. It's 2:33 pm and she's not showing any signs of laying. Yesterday's egg was almost full size compared to the three previous eggs.

We only have about another 2 hours of daylight. So if she's going to lay today she'll have to do it soon.

 

[bobbieschicks]

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Must have been between 2:20 and 4:40 today!
The first ONE!

Yeah! So happy for you. It's a great feeling.

 

[bobbieschicks]

Well she went in at 4pm and no egg

so hopefully I'll get one early tomorrow and the laying cycle will start again. Can I just say WAAAHHHH!

I want my egg!

 

[bobbieschicks]

Checked at 7:30p.m. and no egg, but checked at 6:30 a.m. and sure enough there was an egg in the box

 

[bobbieschicks]

Well yesterday we got a shell less egg, and today nothing. So I am a little concerned but hopefully she'll lay an egg tomorrow. I hope she isn't having egg bound. She is eating and acting fine, just not consistently laying.

 

[annaraven]

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Relax mom.

It's pretty normal for them to skip occasionally. Especially in this season. If you get 5 eggs a week, from a new layer, in winter? you're doing great. Unless she starts acting sick, don't worry about a lack of eggs for at least a couple days. Even in a leghorn.