The Poultry Keeper

privatehire · Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 39 Location: West Yorkshire

I think that we should ban the talk about chickens laying eggs............. Very Happy

Coz my girls have stopped laying...the dark and cold nights are taking there toll ............... coffee

gardie · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 72 Location: Aberdeenshire

This shows it's down to how the hen at the end of the day and not so much the lighting Cool

We have 7 Isa browns ( 5 being ex batts ) and 5 Bantams in 1 hen house with a low energy lamp for a few hours extra light in the morning and night with them freeranging all day and get 5 / 7 from the Isa Browns and 2 from the Bantams every day. Very Happy

But then we also picked up 7 Isa Browns on Sunday who are in another hen house with no light ( hoping to put the all together at the weekend ) with them outside all day in there pen and got 5 from the Yesterday. Very Happy

millibud · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: eggs what eggs!!!

having some "wonderful chickens " (i keep telling them that so they lay me some eggs!!) but the most i get is 6/7 day out of 30+ hens so my little stall has been put away!!!
My Brahmas will lay but as I only have 2 now who can and 19 youngsters who can't --- not alot of help. Confused

gardie · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 72 Location: Aberdeenshire

1 of our Red Saddled Yokohama hens over the past few weeks started laying the odd egg but now for the past week she has given us a egg per day, with our incubator full and in use the only thing we can do is eat them. Sad

, thinking of buying a small incubator for these eggs. Smile

Chris Kurzfeld · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1712 Location: Carmarthenshire

Out of 35 laying hens/pullets i am getting 12 - 17 eggs a day, plus a couple of bantam eggs from my 3 bantam girls - bless them. Some are moulting and some are just coming into lay and the nights are closing in so i don't know why I am still getting so many. My regular passer by buyers, thinking back to last years drop off, have stopped stopping for eggs and we getting such a stockpile we are feeding them back to the chooks!!!! Shocked

. Psst - anybody want any eggs - going cheep, oops, i mean cheap:lol: .

Tarka · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 421

We had 7 eggs in three weeks and now the moult has finished there laying every day again .

rosierosie · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 20

Our three girls are still giving us three eggs a day and each day I collect the eggs Im still as excited as the first time they each layed lol does it ever wear off lol TC Rosie x

NobbyNobbs · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:05 am Post subject:

both my hens lay every day without fail Very Happy

good job too or we'd have to go buy eggs and thats a crime in this house these days!

greentree · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 180 Location: Wicklow - Ireland

I have 3 hens but only one is laying because the other 2 are moulting. Funny, at this stage I know which hen is laying based on the shape and colour of the egg and they are all Light Sussex!

privatehire · Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 39 Location: West Yorkshire

So there I am thinking that my girls have stopped laying.....when i cut back a bush in the garden the little buggers have lay-ed 20eggs there(free range hens).so now they don't get out of the run.(no so free range...but a big run for 3 girls)
And today i got 3 eggs!!!!

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3540 Location: Monmouthshire

They really are little beasties. My vultures are just coming in to lay but the older ones are still moulting. The only regular layers are the hybrids at the moment. Nowhere near enough eggs to put an Eggs for Sale notice at the end of the drive yet.

Coaster · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject:

my 4 warrens are still laying well but they are in the 1st seaon,

Tony Sirett · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

i have 24 hens all of egg laying age although some are now three years old, during the summer i was getting up to 16/17 eggs a day but over the last month it has dropped down to 6/7 a day Crying or Very sad

im having trouble keeping up with my neighbours request for eggs.

thinking it might be time to get some more hatching eggs and neck the 3 year olds?

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7424 Location: isle of lewis

you've been lucky i haven't seen an egg ,in over 6 weeks well a chicken egg ,today i've found 5 Shocked

,thought i'd better check and there they were Cool

rob-cs · Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Castellon

I think the cold don't make hens stop laying, because here it's not cold like there. In my town never snow and it's not normal have negative temperature, and my gens don't lay eggs... If you put a light in the hen house they will start laying eggs. Like in batery hen farms