Two eggs in a day and double yolks

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Jabecca

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I have nine hens that are 20 weeks old. Leghorns, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex. They are often laying double yolks. Mainly the leghorns.
Over last week we have had two different days that we got 12 eggs. The “extra” eggs are smaller but normal otherwise. I’m just concerned that they are laying so much. We get around 7 eggs everyday.
Is this normal? Should I be worried?
 
Mrs. K

Mrs. K

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No need to worry, nothing you can do about it. You can't really make chickens lay, and you can't stop them from laying. It is perfectly normal. I would suspect the BO but she would lay a brown egg, but mine have often give double yolks for the first six months, and then sporadically after that.

Leghorns can do so, recently I just had two double Yorkers out of store bought eggs, we laughed.

Count your blessings and remember this when the dark days of winter come, and you can't hardly find an egg.

Mrs K
 
Flockincrazy

Flockincrazy

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Jabecca said:
I have nine hens that are 20 weeks old. Leghorns, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex. They are often laying double yolks. Mainly the leghorns.
Over last week we have had two different days that we got 12 eggs. The “extra” eggs are smaller but normal otherwise. I’m just concerned that they are laying so much. We get around 7 eggs everyday.
Is this normal? Should I be worried?
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I have a white leghorn that has layed double yolkers since she started laying its just the way she lays
 
luckycluk

luckycluk

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My last lil flock of 6 hens,(mutts RR AND domnicker) all six layer double Yorkers right from the start but then after 2 years they hardly layed at all. We were lucky to get 1-2 eggs a week from the whole flock. They are retired to a 94 yr old man’s farm. He just enjoys having them. We started our flock over this year.
I was wondering can hens use up all their eggs in their ovaries by laying double yolkers consistently? I had heard that each hen is born with all their eggs they are gonna lay in their life in their ovary, is this true?
 
Duckduckchicken32

Duckduckchicken32

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luckycluk said:
I was wondering can hens use up all their eggs in their ovaries by laying double yolkers consistently? I had heard that each hen is born with all their eggs they are gonna lay in their life in their ovary, is this true?
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Hens are born with all the eggs they will lay in their life. But they are born with around 5,000 eggs, and most of them don’t get used. I would assume the same with double yolkers.
 

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