What time of day do the lay?

[acw123]

mine lay between 8am and 4pm

 

[franklinchickens]

We have 7 hens and while one hasn't started yet (a Polish who is 8 months) the rest (3 girls from last year and 3 others from this year) all seem to lay between 9 and early to mid afternoon. 2 have laid this morning so far. We've got 2 EE's that just got over molting and they haven't started laying again yet but before the molt it was always mid morning.

 

[MedChicken]

Mine lay between eight and noon.

 

[ambrosia]

I for the last several weeks have had a dozen by noon... by 2 p.m. they go outside to "play" and have only had to keep a couple in to finish their business....

 

[CarolJ]

I hardly ever get an egg after 3:00 pm. Mostly mornings and early afternoons.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Mine lay early in the orning, right when they get up. So that's about 6:30-7:00 o'clock.

 

[Mahonri]

Most of my hens get their job done by noon... but I have one or two that will lay between noon and roost time.

 

[mnabity]

I have two that lay at sun up, two that lay before 9, one by noon, one very late evening around 5 or 6 and one whenever she feels like it. The others don't think they need to lay yet.

 

[rmh0508]

my 3 red sexlinks lay just after dawn, my 2 polish in the afternoon about 2ish and the other 4 mutt chickens lay right around 11 am I collect eggs in the am when I get up and right after dark

 

[Fierlin1182]

My chickens always lay, without fail, before 6am. None of us, even my mother who's up with the lark every day, has seem any of them laying for quite a few months now, and the eggs are always there, cold, when we go to collect them in the morning.