What to do when you go out to check the chicken and forget the egg apron? (Or basket, or anything for carrying eggs, really.) Fold up the bottom of your t-shirt. Of course it was a high egg production day. We cycle high and low; one day we get 7, then the next day we get 4. Then on rare days we’ll get a node and 11 hens will lay on the same day. This spring there has always been at least one broody or recovering broody that hasn’t started laying again, because we have 12 laying hens, but we have never had 12 eggs in a day.