Comments on: The Secret To Getting Your Chickens To Lay More Eggs

By: Billie V. Clark

Billie V. Clark — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:47:33 +0000

I’m Billie, I’m 7 years old, Iwant to do chickens for my future.
also Barbado sheep, Crossed with Dorpher, to create a business
around organics, My cash flow shoud start with the best in my
budget, which will be from my retired fathers soc., sec.,
I want to learn all about chicks. How can we get started soon.
I now have 8 Red Star 2 month old, 25 @ 3 Black Star, 2 turkins
2 that lay blue eggs weeks, all are 1 month old, Just received
on the 17th , Nov 12 turkins, 12 Legorns.

Business Plan to aquire 25 per month as I learn ithe in’s and outs
the up’s and downs of the chicken business.

I aquired u’r info sometime back and just today starting to read.
and reply. Please sign me up.

Be looking forward to hearing, learning you rules. Maybe I will be
your asset one day. Thanking U in advance Respectfully. Billie V.

By: Jeanene

Jeanene — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:57:33 +0000

I have just moved my chickens to another location. Whilst there I was only getting about an egg a day. Now I’m not getting any. I have about 18 of them. They are all free range maybe it’s too large, they get lots of greens, papayas and veg scraps. The only feed here is chopped corn. Some are young about 7 months old and some older don’t know their age. I have made their coop dark and are using recycle buckets for nests. Don’t know why.

By: Mrs.Dirty Boots

Mrs.Dirty Boots — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:57:40 +0000

Stephanie – adding new chickens to old is likely to upset both sets of hens, but usually only short-term whilst they sort out their pecking order again. In the meantime laying might be a little hit and miss.

I imagine your older birds are simply slowing down (but it would depend on the breed as some go on laying fairly regularly for far longer than others). Our local hybrid birds tend to give up on much egg production after about 3 years, but until then were laying probably around 250 eggs a year each, so stopping so young was to be expected.

But, the younger hens might simply not be up to speed yet (or none of them like your rooster much!). I’m sure they will sort themselves out in a week or two.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:14:19 +0000

Could it be possible that adding new hens would upset the old hen and they stop laying? if they did would they start again? we had 5 hens for 6 years and this year Got 6 more hens and replaced the rooster. we only get about 5-6 eggs. could the old chickens be done laying??

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:09:16 +0000

http://www.suburbanchooks.com.au also have a FAQ’s section with some good info on keeping chickens. Worth a look!

By: mrschickinluvr88

mrschickinluvr88 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:12:56 +0000

http://www.backyardpoultry.com is also a great site for free info about raising chickens.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:32:51 +0000

http://www.backyardchickens.com/
this is an excellent website for FREE advice from chicken owners.

By: Mr.Dirty Boots

Mr.Dirty Boots — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:18:23 +0000

Feralchick, that’s right. The quicker you get the eggs the sooner the Chicken will have layed her quota.

Good point about stress, it will stop them laying for a while.

Yay for the Hens!

By: feralchick

feralchick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:07:57 +0000

Might also be worth considering that a light bulb now means fewer eggs later. But if your goal is efficiency (quick eggs, then to the stew pot), it makes sense.

One other factor that will definitely impact laying is stress. If you relocated a hen, if it suffers a traumatic event, etc., you can expect a hiatus. But they do bounce back.

So happy hens are good!