laying two eggs per day?????

[Nicos]

Yesterday I thought I'd missed an egg ( from the day before) in the box when I collected 6 eggs from 5 hens!!!!!

Ok- so imagine my surprise just now when I've collected another 6 today
Clearly one of them is laying 2 eggs a day- all normal size too!

Good gals!..anyone else had a chook laying 2 a day???..surely it won't last???? ( the gals are just over a year old)

[Bramble-Poultry]

or you have a stowaway!!

Egg production is goverened largley by light intensity and length - so nice weathered long summer days can in fact cause another egg, if shes an early in the day layer then another can be ready later on. If they are not laid much apart in time then the other cause is twins - usually this comes out as a double yolked egg when two ovum are released they are encapsulated in 1 shell, however it has been know to come out as two eggs - depends on the timing of release.

Not commom and usually only seen in young birds and some breeds are more prone than others, who know how long it lasts - if its light intesity then not long they regulate themselves, if it "twins" then she may release two ova all her life, they may turn into larger two yolked eggs though as she gets into a more regular cycle or may stay as two eggs - or she may grow out of it. Producing 2 eggs a day though is a larger strain on her system so you need to ensure she has an adequate calcium and vitamin intake.

[di]

We've only ever had thirteen in a day once.
Wonder if it's got anything to do with how often they were broody,therefore not laying???

[Nicos]

Good idea about the extra calcium!...obvious but I'd not thought about that!!!
...Thanks!


...I'm almost tempted to go and see if there is a 7th one!!!!

I collected 3 cold eggs at 9am and 3 more at 1.30pm- I supposed they could have been laid at 6am ( first light here)- so 7 hrs apart...is that twins??

Must be the oyster shells are having the same effect on the gals as the contents are supposed to have on humans!!!

[roitelet]

Hope they are the Cayennes Nicos.

[Nicos]

All yours roitelet..all yours!!!!

[Hilary B]

Good idea about the extra calcium!...obvious but I'd not thought about that!!!
...Thanks!


...I'm almost tempted to go and see if there is a 7th one!!!!

I collected 3 cold eggs at 9am and 3 more at 1.30pm- I supposed they could have been laid at 6am ( first light here)- so 7 hrs apart...is that twins??

Must be the oyster shells are having the same effect on the gals as the contents are supposed to have on humans!!!

Chook keeping book I used to have said that if 2 yolks were 'released' less than about an hour apart, you got a double yolked egg, if longer (but still well within the day), you would get 2 eggs that day.
It takes about 25 hours from the yolk being released to the egg being laid (all the other layers being added), and 'normally' they don't release the next one until the previous is close to completion, but it does vary. I wouldn't be surprised if all the time spent broody and not laying has something to do with it, but never heard of any such happening.