People ask me all the time why chickens lay eggs daily and seemingly other birds lay them once or twice a year. Here is my answer!!

Chickens lay one or sometimes more unfertilized or fertilized eggs a day until they have collected a clutch. If you continually collect eggs daily they will continually lay eggs because their goal is to have a clutch. A clutch usually is about a dozen eggs. She will sit on them just as other birds do whether they are fertilized or not. Most of the time hens will lay eggs right next to one of the other flocks eggs or you can catch them scooting one egg into the nesting box of their choice to add to their egg.