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Hi,

If you want them to lay, give them two or three hours of light in the morning. Feed is too expensive to not have them lay--Had a discussion about this on CA chickens and the consensus is since chickens have about 2000 ovum and often don't lay past three years(well not too much) they won't run out of eggs. One guy said he rarely had a chicken live long enough to run out of eggs. 2000 divided by 300 would be more than six and a half years per chicken.

Let me know if you want help with this. Yesterday I got 9 eggs from 11 hens.

Ron

I'm kind of torn on that just because one of the hens is going through a sever molt, she looks like a porcupine with all her pin feathers. I should mention that 6 of my hens are old, I was told 4 years when I got them. The one molting and the 2 EEs are only ones that ever laid. I just read about someone that turns the lights on at 2 AM till 8 am instead of doing some hours in the evening, anyone ever try that?
 
so how many of us have b-days in February ? mines the 21st
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Hi,

If you want them to lay, give them two or three hours of light in the morning. Feed is too expensive to not have them lay--Had a discussion about this on CA chickens and the consensus is since chickens have about 2000 ovum and often don't lay past three years(well not too much) they won't run out of eggs. One guy said he rarely had a chicken live long enough to run out of eggs. 2000 divided by 300 would be more than six and a half years per chicken.

Let me know if you want help with this. Yesterday I got 9 eggs from 11 hens.

Ron

I'm kind of torn on that just because one of the hens is going through a sever molt, she looks like a porcupine with all her pin feathers. I should mention that 6 of my hens are old, I was told 4 years when I got them. The one molting and the 2 EEs are only ones that ever laid. I just read about someone that turns the lights on at 2 AM till 8 am instead of doing some hours in the evening, anyone ever try that?

I always did mornings, but not that early with neighbors. Night time they still have to get up and roost. If lights are suddenly turned off they haven't had a chnce to do that and can fall and get hurt. I scared on of my Davis FBCM hens a couple of months ago with a flashlight. She fell and I went to see this silly bird that fell from the roost and she had broken her neck. She died just as ZI was picking her up. Morning light is much safer.
 
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I'm kind of torn on that just because one of the hens is going through a sever molt, she looks like a porcupine with all her pin feathers. I should mention that 6 of my hens are old, I was told 4 years when I got them. The one molting and the 2 EEs are only ones that ever laid. I just read about someone that turns the lights on at 2 AM till 8 am instead of doing some hours in the evening, anyone ever try that?

I always did mornings, but not that early with neighbors. Night time they still have to get up and roost. If lights are suddenly turned off they haven't had a chnce to do that and can fall and get hurt. I scared on of my Davis FBCM hens a couple of months ago with a flashlight. She fell and I went to see this silly bird that fell from the roost and she had broken her neck. She died just as ZI was picking her up. Morning light is much safer.

I have a timer that turns on the light at 3:30 in the morning. I use a 40 watt halogen bulb.

Make sure your molting hen is getting extra protein. The molts are supposed to get harder and more often as the hens get older.

One person says they wait until the end of December to start the light, which gives them a two month rest from laying. If you don't give them light, breeds that don't lay in the winter will stop laying for four months, so starting in January you lose two months of laying.

Ron
 
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Mine is the 3rd and my husband's was the 4th.

My Aunt's birthday is February 3! I am a January baby - January 8.

3 more posts to go until 1,000!
 
Ohhhh so close!

OK I was asking in another thread about chocolate, dun or khaki being sex linked. I'm still not fully away, so I'll have to look that up later if I don't get a response. But while I was posting it hit me. duuuuuuhhhhhh. The father of my chickies most likely is the blue Olive Egger. I have one blue chick, one black and the 2 browns. The 2 browns look more like pullets to me. A lot more, so since I haven't jumped in the Chocolate band wagon, YET, if they ARE sex linked how cool is that?

Other thing about these chicks is mom is splash, dad is blue with the tiniest about of not really coppering from his dad, but very small amount of brown in him. But should it still go like blue being crossed with splash?

Oh it's too early. I should wait to think and then put the ramblings in writing. LOL


Almost to 1000! Just imagine of we had even MORE people on this thread. weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 

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