What time of day do they lay?

[frog522]

Wow, I was wondering this too! This is actually good news since my girls haven't started laying yet...and I was worried I (more like my neighbors) would be hearing the egg song at 6am in the morning...

 

[Dingleberry]

starts late morning and goes to late afternoon now

 

[debo4702]

Mine seem to lay mostly in the evenings.

 

[RM44]

With 11 girls that are all only 6.5 months old, I get the occasional early egg (before 9am). Generally though, they lay between 10am and 4pm eastern. I also get the occasional 5-7pm egg, but that is even more rare than the early morning egg. My chickens' eggs and places of lay are all different, so I know pretty much who laid which egg and at what time.

They do gravitate as a flock towards later in the day for some reason, and then gravitate back to earlier in the morning. Since they are all the same age and all confined together and all exposed to the same environment, food, etc., I attribute their collaborative egg laying time to the environment more than anything else.

Sometimes I disrupt their egg laying times (or the times for some of them) when I go into the hen house and see that the feeder needs to be refilled. If anyone is in the box when I refill the feeder, she will typically jump out of the box to eat, delaying her egg for a few hours after that.

 

[cafe]

Best I can tell, late morning/early afternoon.

 

[Morgan7782]

Will they go to the nest boxes to lay their eggs?

 

[huckleberryfarm]

I only have one hen laying so far but she lays after lunch in the afternoon. This post has been very informative. Thanks for the info!!!

 

[abqferreira]

I am new to chickens, but mine have been laying for about a month now. They seem to always lay between about 9-12 every morning. I'm grateful for this, since they are fairly noisy for a couple of hours before hand!

 

[FowlLanguage]

I have gotten them from 7 AM to 8 PM

 

[Cocotte]

I've only got one chicken laying, but she'll lay an egg around 9-10am one day, then the next day around 4-5pm, the next day nothing, then the next 9-10am, then 4-5pm, and so on.