I start my chicks in June or thereabouts, and in this way they start to lay in late November or early December, and they lay all winter. It works well.
BUT...the older birds stop laying around August or so to molt, and so I don't have any eggs to sell for two or three months.
It is very frustrating.
I guess perhaps I should start some chicks in February, so they could start laying sooner, but I don't know if I could keep them warm enough even with a heat lamp in February.
How do other people get eggs all year? I just hate paying those HUGE feed bills and getting nothing in return.
Catherine
BUT...the older birds stop laying around August or so to molt, and so I don't have any eggs to sell for two or three months.
It is very frustrating.
I guess perhaps I should start some chicks in February, so they could start laying sooner, but I don't know if I could keep them warm enough even with a heat lamp in February.
How do other people get eggs all year? I just hate paying those HUGE feed bills and getting nothing in return.
Catherine