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You may just need to level with them that laying slacks off during the winter and you won't have enough to keep them supplied consistently during the winter. You can explain the biology of it to them as well. Unfortunately, people are used to industrial eggs where the hens are kept in...

I let my chickens take a break during the winter. Laying is hard on their systems and they need a rest. Most of the birds I have now will be breeding stock, so I want to keep them healthy. I may at some point, start a "laying flock" of hybrids that I keep laying all year. This year, I'm...

We have mobile coops in an electrified poultry netting paddock. We feed them in the paddock. Leaving food out would just attract pests and predators. We feed them first thing in the morning (and it is usually gone within an hour), kitchen scraps in the evening, they forage in their paddock the...