refertlisation of old chicken

[Rizu]

Hi

its seen that in farms white leghorn chickens are kept for laying eggs. After three years chicken will reduce the egg laying. Then these old chicken are sold in market.

my question is can v buy these chicken for laying eggs?
Is their any way to increase their egg laying ability?
For how many years white leg horn gives egg?

 

[Teila]

Hello again Rizu [I said hello on your other New Member post].

You would be best posting your question on probably this forum: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/chicken-behaviors-and-egglaying.18/

I will ask one of the moderators to move it for you.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Once her production begins to slow, in most breeds by age 2, there is not much you can do but support them nutritionally and enjoy the eggs they do lay. Birds used for production burn themselves out hard and early, they also can be more frequent suffers to laying issues that may shorten their lives as well.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree with TattooedChicks, it would be best to start with young layers.

 

[1cock2hens]

I had some retired production laying hens that I got from a trade and I was very happy with them, they gave me about a dozen eggs a week between the three of them. I didnt do anything but give them layer pellets.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Quoted the previous poster:
"I had some retired production laying hens that I got from a trade and I was very happy with them, they gave me about a dozen eggs a week between the three of them. I didnt do anything but give them layer pellets."

That is about one egg from each hen every other day, or another way to view it is about the average per capita production of young so called Heritage pullets or hens.

 

[BYC910]

No not really .Older hens will lay a few in spring and early summer and be the first ones to stop laying when days start to shorten. From a monetary point it just isn't worth feeding them for the eggs they lay .There are members with old old chickens . They are pets kept out of love not for egg production. Laying houses burn them out fast . Chickens allowed to live a natural life won't produce as many eggs year round but will produce for more years than laying house hens . But only one or two more years. I know they are cheap maybe even cheaper than they are being priced to you . I like either pullets raised through the winter that hit laying age early spring. Or spring chicks that start laying in the fall for winter eggs .

 

[chickengeorgeto]

For maybe 10,000 years the DNA of all farm animals has been rigorously selected for production of a food item, or else the performance of a task. If you want to be insanely rich, breed and copyright a strain of hens who produce at age 10 as many eggs per year as they do at 12 months. All male and female creatures including humans lose some of their reproductive powers as they age. In the not so distant past human life expectancy was 30 years or less. This tended to insure a young breeding population able to quickly replenish the population in case of disaster. This is no different from the egg production of young v old hens, notwithstanding the caterwauling of organizations like PETA or the HSUS.

 

[1cock2hens]

his questions were
" can v buy these chicken for laying eggs?
Is their any way to increase their egg laying ability?
For how many years white leg horn gives egg?"

1 yes you can,
2 no not really just keep them happy and they will do there best
3 / i'm not sure

you might like this article I found online http://www.henclass.com/how-long-can-she-go/