How many eggs can a hen lay within 10 hours?

-- Bryan Young (mac_dad_86@hotmail.com), September 07, 2001

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-- tracy (murfette@stargate.net), September 07, 2001.

Bryan, it takes a hen about 26 hours for it to lay an egg after the last one. Everyday it takes a hen about 2 hours later to lay an egg until the last evening it may skip it and lay early the next morning. It will then start the cycle all over again.

-- r.h. in okla. (rhays@sstelco.com), September 07, 2001.

It takes at least 21 hours for a hen to pass an egg through the oviduct. Therefore it IS possible to get more than one egg a day out of a bird, but very very rare, even in breeds that are known for top production.

http://www.afn.org/%7Epoultry/egghen.htm

http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu/b633/b633_2.html

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), September 08, 2001.

Somehow, I have had 15 eggs a day out of 14 hens (no, an egg hadn't been hidden in the straw, we use newspaper in our nests because they just kick the straw out.)

-- Elizabeth (eball2@wvu.edu), September 08, 2001.

Hahahaaaaa maybe you should count your chickens again. Maybe a stray one had joined up with yours. My mother-in-lay says she dosn't have any chickens but gets about 6 eggs a day hahahaa. Just strays that like her shed.

-- Teresa (c3ranch@socket.net), September 08, 2001.

Bryan, it takes 26 hours for a hen to cycle. A duck's egg cycle is 24 hours so they consistantly outlay chickens. Lay bigger eggs too. :)

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), September 08, 2001.

Little Quacker, And they taste better, too!

-- Duffy (hazelm@tenforward.com), September 09, 2001.