What is the oldest that your hen was still laying?

[HensHaven]

I have a 3 year old leghorn that I rescued and she still lays an egg every day.

 

[TriciaHowe]

I have an 8 yr old golden comet that still lays at least 3x week and even went broody and hatched out chicks this springs (not her eggs- hers are pretty porous now). I bought her as a "spent 2 yr old". LOL! She's very sweet and a kids favorite.

 

[NYREDS]

We had an old hybrid hen that just wouldn't quit. She was still laying at 13, long after the others we got with her were dead.

 

[allieloveschickens]

Wow 13 years old! That is very impressive

 

[Matt A NC]

Prissy and Priscilla were 10+ years old. They were EEs. They were here 9 years and at least 1 when before Mom rescued them. Their molts took longer and they had longer breaks between cycles, but during a laying cycle the sisters managed 8-10 eggs a week together.

In 2007 Prissy became an internal layer and ended up with an infection. She had managed to pull out of it a few times, but the last time she was going down fast. We euthanized the old gal. The next day Priscilla refused to eat and would have nothing to do with other birds. She just stood in the spot the sisters liked to hang out looking around. This went on for over a week, she lost all her weight, and still refused to eat. We did what we thought was right and laid her to rest beside her sister.

Matt

 

[smiley]

Thanks for all the replies! Boy, was I wrong!! This thread has brought me through a range of emotions.

I was shocked to read about so many hens laying longer than I thought possible!

Chicky Tocks, I had to laugh because thought the same thing about my BO hens and was perplexed until I figured out they were molting! LOL

Matt, I wanted to cry. Very touching and sad story but I feel you did the right thing if she refused to eat.

 

[keesmom]

I had 8 year olds laying this year. Obviously not as well as they did at a year but they did okay.

 

[wolftracks]

I have question about some of my hens.

I have a flock of FBCMs that took from late July to just a week ago to finish their moult. They are approximately 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 yrs old. They haven't started laying again, but I also don't have lights hooked up. My husband used to set those up, we just moved here before he passed away and this is an older not so great rental. I'm kind of worried about plugging in more than it can handle.

These are Bev Davis lines, so does anyone know if they will start back up again or how this line is on production with older birds? Anyone have Bev's birds still laying after this age?

Some of my pullets I noticed today are redding up, so I hope to at least keep that flock going for now, but I'm hoping with some rest my other girls will start laying so I can incubate.

 

[Cowgirl71]

A friend of mine has an eight year old Black Tailed White Japanese Bantam named Beatrice that still lays a couple small white eggs a month. She's so small and cute next to the large dual-purpose hens.

 

[Rizu]

An old show strain of attractive large fowl White Leghorns,hens from 9-12 years old are still laying a fair number of large sized eggs .What more can you ask for.

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An old show strain of attractive large fowl White Leghorns,hens from 9-12 years old are still laying a fair number of large sized eggs .What more can you ask for.

Hi

Need your advise. In my country white leg horn r not supplied to public. But due to my one chance i am able to find a white leg horn rooster. But in order to find white leghorn hen the only option is to take those hens which have grown old and either reduced laying egg or totally stopd it.

What if i get those hen whose age is three plus years and not laying egg or less laying egg.

I want the egg to b fertile by my rooster to have a perfect white leg horn breed.

Will these chicken lay eggs if yes then how oftenly?
Answer plzz