Barred Rock Layers???

[Silly Chickens]

I had one BR lay at 20 weeks and the other a couple weeks later.

 

[speckledhen]

My Barred Rocks are excellent layers without artificial light. Be careful using light in winter to artificially extend their daylight if you want them to live long lives rather than lay like gangbusters and get reproductive cancers. Hatchery birds are bred for the most part to lay, lay, lay till they keel over dead anyway, in my experience.

 

[Dennisbarredrock]

My name says it all ! what a wonderful breed . My Barreds started laying just about 5 1/2 months (early Nov. ).Of course the days are getting shorter up here in Canada at that time , I just bought a cheap timer ,plugged that into the socket, plug a light into that and set it for 5:00
A. M. to give them the boost to keep laying throughout the winter.