What time of day do your chickens lay?

[gallusdomesticus]

A 'normal' chicken's egg producing cycle is 25 hours meaning she will lay one hour later each day until it gets dark then start over again in the morning or if she happens to skip a day. Although it happens, hens don't normally lay at night. By the responses on the board, it seems some members have girls that are on a 24 hour cycle but my experience is that 25hrs is the norm.

 

[Chemguy]

At present I have morning layers that lay about 2 hours after sunrise and afternoon layers, who lay about 3 hours before sunset. Nobody works 3rd shift, and nobody puts in overtime.

 

[Kittyf]

My RIR lays nearly every day between 7am and 8am. The barred rock clocks in around noon - 1pm. The white leghorn has not started laying yet (pleeeese! Just give Mommy an egg!) and the new black marans - who after 11 days seems acclimated and comfy - still has not resumed laying. C'mon, ladies! Pleeeese! Surprise me with a white and a chocolate-colored egg!

 

[CluckCluck2]

For two days now I have found my silkie hen outside the coop (in the pen) after dark. She layed last night, must have been right before dark (6pm). Tonight she was up to it again. This time I put her in and waited until the door shut. She was squawking like she was going to lay but I don't want her to get in the habit of laying so late. She won't lay in the coop, she likes it outside in the corner of the pen. Any ideas???

This is our coop within the pen.

 

[Chicken_Pauper]

Quote:

A 'normal' chicken's egg producing cycle is 25 hours meaning she will lay one hour later each day until it gets dark then start over again in the morning or if she happens to skip a day. Although it happens, hens don't normally lay at night. By the responses on the board, it seems some members have girls that are on a 24 hour cycle but my experience is that 25hrs is the norm.

X 2 ---- According to "Raising Chickens for Dummies" -- They go approx. one hour later each day, until they skip a day and/or start again in the am.. exactly as gallusdomesticus and Raising Chickens for Dummies says... I think that mine vary a bit, they do not lay "one hour later" everyday... some do.. some lay two hours later everyday until they skip a day and then start over.. but, this may well be the ones who ultimately lay less. The ones who lay more consistently go an hour later or less each day and then start over without missing a day -- at least not very often. My opinion.

 

[Tikkijane]

Ours lay all hours. I've got one that for a while would sneak in sometime late and lay- we'd have one after 8 pm and before 6 am..... it's almost 1 pm now, and I just went out and got 2 more. We haven't used supplemental light, and we're still getting about 7+ a day (we have 13 total) and last week we had a day where we got 12.

When they are out in the afternoon, they all go back to the nesting boxes to lay, too, which is particularly nice.

Fwiw.

 

[juliecarkhuff]

I have 24 hens and I get 4 in the morning I will get another 8 ro 9 around 3pm. I put them in the barn just before dark. I go out right after dinner to take them left overs and will get another 2 or 3. But every night when I go out to check all the animals at 11 I will have 2.

 

[Kevin565]

Mine tend to lay between 6 and 8 am.

 

[idahogirl]

I got my first egg after three weeks of having them Easter egger it was sooo awesom I ran into the house yelling we got one we got one my husband laughed it was about 11.00 am

 

[skyblu]

A 'normal' chicken's egg producing cycle is 25 hours meaning she will lay one hour later each day until it gets dark then start over again in the morning or if she happens to skip a day. Although it happens, hens don't normally lay at night. By the responses on the board, it seems some members have girls that are on a 24 hour cycle but my experience is that 25hrs is the norm.

same here - all of mine lay an hour or so later each day until they skip a day, then it's back to an early morning egg the day after. The latest they'll lay seems to be around 6pm in summer when it gets dark around 9.30 ish