Way too many eggs!

[TinyRaptorDodos]

My EE’s do that too I find some the next day and it’s crazy

They used to do that when they were free ranging but they hate the snow so they refuse to leave the coop

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Looks like lots of quiche & omelets this week!

I guess so! We do have eight people living in this house along with a dog who eats egg shells

 

[neo71665]

Crush the shells and give them back to the birds.

 

[NatJ]

So I have eight hens, I got seven eggs yesterday, it’s the middle of winter in Alaska, and I get 13 eggs today? What’s up with that?

We do have eight people living in this house

I have read of chickens occasionally laying a second egg in a given day (new-layer glitch), but it's pretty rare. Having 5 hens all do it on the same day seems VERY unlikely!

So if you are sure the eggs could not have been hidden in the nestbox from previous days, I suggest you check how many eggs were in your house-- someone might have played a prank by taking some eggs back out to the nests.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

13!? Did you miss them from devious days?

Nope! I get them from the coop everyday, got seven yesterday

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I love my EEs. They’re mixed that we’re on sale in tractor supply and they have hair……. They’re Easter eggers of some sort tho

EEs are so amazing

 

[Sara S]

They used to do that when they were free ranging but they hate the snow so they refuse to leave the coop

Awwwv that’s aloottt of eggs though!

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I have read of chickens occasionally laying a second egg in a given day (new-layer glitch), but it's pretty rare. Having 5 hens all do it on the same day seems VERY unlikely!

So if you are sure the eggs could not have been hidden in the nestbox from previous days, I suggest you check how many eggs were in your house-- someone might have played a prank by taking some eggs back out to the nests.

My family doesn’t do that, too cold for them to want to go out, I don’t put in enough hay for them too hide them in the nesting boxes, also yeah around egg shelf wasn’t any less empty then it was before

 

[3DFowlFarm]

So I have eight hens, I got seven eggs yesterday, it’s the middle of winter in Alaska, and I get 13 eggs today? What’s up with that?

CHICKEN MATH, cheers!!!We just love when that happens

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Thirteen?! Oh my! What breeds are your hens?

I have three Easter eggers, two cuckoo Maran mixes, two cinnamon queens and one black sex-link, the black sex-link is about 3 years old, the Marans were hatched in may and the others in march