I'm going to be selling my layer hens if anyone is needing a few. We decided that since they are so loud, and we are in an HOA, that it's probably pushing our luck to keep the big hens. Also my allergies have been terrible ever since they were full grown, might be a coincidence, or maybe not. I've never been this bad in my life though, and the only thing that changed was that my hens were full grown the same time it started. Anyway, I'll be putting up a craigslist ad, but would prefer to find BYC homes if possible.
My hens are all one year old, we bought them around 2/10/2011. We have 1 of each; buff orpington, silver laced wyandotte, rhode island red, cuckoo marans, and one australorp. We get between 4 and 5 eggs a day most days. The lowest they got in winter was 4 eggs every other day, but they are back to 4 or 5 eggs a day now. They are a little faded from using the mister and sun tanning last summer and are slowly replacing one feather here and another there. All have been completely healthy except for my wyandotte who had an eye infection / injury when she was a few months old. They like pellets best but will eat crumble well too.