RIR Fat Content (Warning Graphic Photos)

[Peaguy]

Kinda answered my question there Matt. Thank You! If they are too fat they can't/won't lay?

 

[Larry Waughon]

I guess that is what you would call a stewing hen. She needed a good work out on a treadmill.

 

[Homesteading_Bound]

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So that's what the middle age spread looks like... I know what you mean...It's just getting late and that sounded funny to me.....

 

[Cyberous]

Wow thanks for the great feedback.

I have no clue what she was fed until I got her. I've been feeding them layer but the layer does have corn in it.

I mixed in some of the hi-protein food I feed the Cornish to make sure everyone gets more protein.

Siggie updated

She will be boiled and copped up into tacos

Again, thanks all BYC is the best forum!

Don

 

[Agape Builder]

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Hens, like females of all animals, are born with all of the eggs that they will ever produce already in their ovaries. Some hens that start laying later than others or that are slower layers can lay eggs for a longer period of time. However, whenever a hen has layed all of the eggs that she was born with, she will never lay another egg because she has no more to lay. It is just that simple. That is why they are called "spent hens." It has nothing to do with the amount of fat that they have or do not have.

Spent hens are only good for two things besides eating up all of your food... they can still be used as broody hens to incubate eggs from other chickens and to raise those chicks as her own. That is, IF she is a good broody hen and predisposed to want to lay on the eggs and raise the chicks. If not, then they are only good for the second thing... the crockpot!

 

[jjparke]

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Just what I was going to say. Ya it's a lot of fat but only because of the feed.

 

[chicklips]

According to Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens if a bird is too fat it will not lay as good as a bird with a lower fat content.