So, reading the other replies I realize how I must have come across... I realize that I was condescending, and disregarding her past experience. Thinking more, which I realize I should have done before I posted, there are flukes and four birds are not enough to base any opinions on. I apologize...
So I got chickens a while ago with my neighbor. We raised them as chicks, kept a couple, and gave 4 to my neighbor. While being a good person, she is not a good chicken farmer. She wakes her chickens up at 2 am with lights, and the strain of laying this caused killed one of her chickens. Her...