When do chickens lay?

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YES, I would try leaving them inside the coop until maybe 10:00, after they lay. If your chickens are free range, then you will start finding eggs nestled in tall patches of grass and maybe even in the garden out in the yard. It's not a very pleasant thing to step into on your morning stroll.
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Well, your chickens should stop laying for the day in the morning most of the time. Mine usually lay anytime before 10:00.
 
Yes, chickens do molt that young. Our young lead hen (just turned 1 year old) is still recovering from her first molt. Her neck was totally bare at one point, then it was covered-- I mean covered in little blue quills. Where in the pecking rank is your chicken? I am guessing that she is probably molting. Questions-- Are you finding feathers inside the nesting boxes? On the roost or where she sleeps? If you are, than you can be sure that she is molting.
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farmgirl02
 
Two of the four (heritage) hens hatched 2/13 molted, they did have nice gently molts, our (production) RIR's molts are about the saddest thing I have ever seen.
 
Mine have just started laying. We found 5 eggs the other day and panicked because we didn't realize they had started to lay. This was so exciting. We cracked one open and there were two full yolks. They were beautiful with the brightest orange yolks i have ever seen.

My hens are very noisy in the morning running from the yard to the coop and back and forth. They squawk and carry on is that normal before they lay.

I have been letting them free range since 10 weeks old and now I keep them in the coop/yard until 2pm then let them out to rummage. I was hoping this would encourage them to nest in the coop so I think it worked.
 

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