What time do your hens lay?

[Chickengirl1304]

Mine like to lay between 10am and 3pm. Is this late?

 

[Megan Amber]

Well if it is then mine are late too! I am pretty sure that's normal!

 

[lorain's fids]

I have 5 chickens. They don't have a specific time to lay each day, but I have noticed that each one will lay an egg about an hour or two later than they did the previous day. Yesterday 3 chickens layed later in the day, so today they didn't lay at all, but tomorrow they should be laying fairly early in the morning.

 

[Megan Amber]

That's interesting! I will have to pay more attention to mine to see if they do it too!

 

[gallusdomesticus]

A chicken's ovulation cycle is 25hrs so for a bird in her prime lays an hour later each day until dark then skip a day and start over. In older hens that lay only a couple of eggs a week, they can lay at any time.

 

[happybooker1]

Wow! This is fascinating! My Frizzle Cochin just started laying. The first egg she laid came about 11AM. Then she skipped the next day. Sunday she laid about noon-ish. Yesterday I had another egg when I got home @ 4PM.

She is just getting 'regulated' though so it may change.

 

[UnlabeledMama]

My chickens lay mainly in the afternoon as well.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Ya it's funny you always hear of ppl going out in the morning to collect eggs but I eat breakfast at 7 or earlier so there are no eggs! Buy by noon I have about a dozen and by 4 I have about 18-20. Silly chicken

 

[kacklinkelly]

I thought I was the only one who had layed back chickens. Mine are doing the same thing.
My husband leaves for work around noon - once in a while he will find something but
usually, I find them when I get home around 4. They only started last week and we had
one day of no egg. This is really enjoyable!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

We have about 50 birds. We get eggs all day. There are usually 5-10 eggs there at 8:30 am when I go down to let the hens out, then 25-30 at 3pm when I do the second egg pick up of the day, then often a couple around dusk when we go to lock the birds in for the night.