How many eggs can a chicken lay per day?
Because it takes 24-26 hours for a hen to construct an egg (adding the albumen, shell membranes and shell) and since chickens have only a single ovary and oviduct, hens are only able to lay an egg a day at the most. If you don’t collect the eggs at the same time each day you might encounter a situation where one day you collected no eggs and the next two, but the eggs were laid on different days – just one right after an early previous collection and/or right before a late collection.
