Yes, but not as many as when it's warm. unless you have a heat lamp. we have 16 chickens and in the winter time we get a lot less. Also if they get older, they don't lay as many. And you have to take them out real fast or they freeze
chickens do lay eggs yearround
Hens will lay all year long but their ovulation is regulated by the number of hours of light they receive per day. Since seasonal temperatures are tied to daylight hours, nature has provided the chicken with an "off Switch" so to speak. If a hen fails to receive at least 14 hours of light per day, she will not produce as many eggs and will slow production or even stop production the less light she gets. Humans are able to defeat that switch by providing artificial light sources.
It depends where you are and what you do to the chickens, but it's rare that they lay eggs in the winter.
Most breeds will unless they get a protein or calcium deficancy. my chickens will stop laying for a short period if there is sudden changes in the weather. -earleykids. :)
yes they do because when my mom was younger she had chickens that had chicks in the winter and she said they would freeze their little toes off lol
It depends on the breed some it will happen all year round whereas some breeds it will only happen in certain seasons. It is probably best to look it up!
Yes, they lay eggs all year.
18 days - it always takes the same number of days (roughly) to hatch eggs.
Birds, snakes, amphibians, fish, and most insects
NO, hens lay eggs without roosters at all. The only thing roosters do for eggs, is fertilize them (Threw Mating) so that a chick can hatch.
No, absolutely not. Hens sit on their eggs until they hatch. They actually nestle their feathers above and around the eggs and keep them warm, but people say they are sitting or setting on their eggs.
The hen sits three weeks on it's eggs before it hatches
Probably not, and if chicks hatch in winter, they'll get cold without protection. It's best to hatch eggs in the spring.
on sitting on them Hens on a farm lay eggs into straw and the hens sit on the eggs until they hatch. Hens in large chicken farms do get to have such a luxury. The chickens' eggs are kept under heat until they hatch.
no that is how people eat eggs. we eat eggs that chickens/hens hatch that aren't fertilized.
18 days - it always takes the same number of days (roughly) to hatch eggs.
Maybe. :)
Roosters don't lay eggs. Hens do.
Pea hens lay eggs and sit on the nest about 28 days to hatch a clutch of eggs
Yes, only the hen sits on eggs.
As long as no humans collect them or critters eat them, they are very safe if the hens can set on them as needed to hatch.
They are mated by a rooster, which fertilizes the eggs. They lay fertilized eggs, and then incubate them until the hatch occurs.
Eggs in a carton are not fertilized, so they have nothing to hatch. Plus, the yolks are mad at their mommy hens and daddies. (joking)
It's a maternal instinct - in the wild hens / birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm grow into chicks and hatch. Most eggs now are unfertilised but the hen retains the maternal instinct to sit on them anyway.