good question -2
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.
Warren hens are known for laying large brown eggs. These hens lay an average of 4 eggs each week. After a full two years of laying the amount of eggs that the hen produces will be reduced.
Unfertilised, all large companies keep their laying hens separate from their breeding hens and cockerels.
because it don't like small spaces
All hens lay eggs.
They can lay anywhere from medium to large to extra large, although it tends to be large.
There is no such thing as a "boy hen". Hens are female chickens.
Hens are mom chickens and roosters are dad chickens. Only mom chickens, hens, lay eggs. They lay eggs all year.
Eggs from battery hens, i.e. hens that are kept in cages (known as batteries) where several hens live together in one cage. These hens cannot roam freely as free-range hens can.
You want your hens are to the age of laying eggs (which is about 6 months), and your hens are under the age of three years (because when they reach this age, they are past their prime, and lay less eggs). Expect from your hens that every day 80% of the number of hens will be your number of eggs. So with this math, if you have 60 hens that are all in their prime, you can expect to get about 1344 eggs in four weeks.
uhh.......... 100 eggs.
One of my six rescued ex-battery hens lays eggs larger than the other hens. Her largest, so far, was 8 cm in height and weighed 93 grams. Not the average sized egg!