Just six chickens can provide 2 dozen eggs a week!

[cray4en]

I read this about 5 minutes ago and could stop wondering if this person has ever owned a chicken in their life! " Just six chickens can provide 2 dozen eggs a week!" is the 2nd line in the article. http://urbansurvivalsite.com/getting-started-with-backyard-chickens/

SO, WHAT BREED IS THIS BECAUSE I NEED IT NOW!?!

 

[Summertime7921]

Well, my chickens mostly lay an egg a day, some every other day, so... 6 times seven days would equal 42 eggs per week. So, 24 eggs is a pretty generous estimate. With 8 hens I get about 45 eggs a week, they're barred rock, australorp, jersey giant and sex link.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Well, my chickens mostly lay an egg a day, some every other day, so... 6 times seven days would equal 42 eggs per week. So, 24 eggs is a pretty generous estimate. With 8 hens I get about 45 eggs a week, they're barred rock, australorp, jersey giant and sex link.

X2

Even if the chickens laid every other day, they would still produce about 24 eggs a week. In the summer time my four hens generally produce 2 dozen eggs a week.

 

[donrae]

I agree any production bird in good health and reasonably young would easily meet that minimum. Ornamentals, not so much.

 

[matt44644]

364 eggs from 15 chickens so far this month.

 

[Michael OShay]

Well, my chickens mostly lay an egg a day, some every other day, so... 6 times seven days would equal 42 eggs per week. So, 24 eggs is a pretty generous estimate. With 8 hens I get about 45 eggs a week, they're barred rock, australorp, jersey giant and sex link.

X3 on that. My Black Australorps lay 5, sometimes 6 eggs per hen per week; and my Black Sex Links are egg laying machines, laying 6-7 eggs per hen per week (more than 300 eggs per hen per year).

 

[BantamLover21]

I agree any production bird in good health and reasonably young would easily meet that minimum. Ornamentals, not so much.

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[binky1902]

I only have two laying so far at 21 weeks and I got a dozen from them the past 7 days.