Did you know they have a laying season? This is dependent on the length of the daylight hours. In the north when days are shorter in the late fall, winter and early spring, the hens take a rest and build up their reserves. You can get them to start laying earlier, by purchasing an electrical timer and attach it to the lights in the hen house. Set the timer to give fourteen hours of light a day. But do give the hens a deserved rest in there sometime!
The hens will lay seasonally (fullest production starts in the spring) for about 18 months before their first molt when they shed their tattered and worn feathers for a new coat of feathers. It is important to feed them a laying pellet formula that is high in protein at this time since the feathers are made of protein. While molting they do not usually lay. You may get the odd egg here and there but not regularly. Then when the molting session is over, they lay again for another season.
They will continue to lay for 3 to six years depending on feed and breed of hen. It is good to get new chicks to replace the older chickens before their production tapers off.
Do not put the baby chicks in directly with the older hens. Without their own mama to protect them the older hens will try to establish the "pecking order" and will kill them. Wait until the new chicks are fully feathered with the mature feathers, not the fluffy down, before you try gradual introduction.
Chicken will lay eggs no matter what you do other than killing it. (and that's not what you raise an egg hen for) You can reduce the amount of eggs a hen will lay by reducing its light levels down from 14 hours per day to 10 hours. The hen will stop laying when and if it goes broody and when it starts to molt.
No, they will not.
it depends on the chicken some do stop but after their older and some might not stop laying but they will slow down (not lay as frequent)
The females from all breeds of chickens lay eggs. Some hens stop laying when they are old, but there are no breeds or varieties of chickens in which the females do not lay eggs. Roosters, as the male of the species, never lay eggs.
By laying eggs like chickens
YES,
There is no mammal that lays chickens. Even chickens do not lay chickens: they lay eggs. there are two types of egg-laying mammals (not chicken-laying), and they are the platypus and the echidna.
If you take really good care of your chickens, they can live to be 10 years. and they lay eggs for about 5years.
yes
It is normal for a laying chicken to not lay eggs for a few days. A hen needs time to rest.
23 weeks
if you only have bacon for your breakfast then you know your chickens are not laying anymore
Most chickens are between 5-6 months old before they start laying eggs and will lay eggs for about two years. Some chickens will start laying at 4.5 months, but this is rare and probably due to hormones in their feed.