Yes. All fruit is good for hens, laying or not. Peaches are nutritious as are crushed apples, melons and berries. You should crush the peaches and remove the pit since the soft interior of the pit contains trace amounts of cyanide.
Nothing. Hen, laying hen, broiler hen. The amount of feed they receive and the age they live to is about the only difference. The laying hen will live to produce eggs and the broiler hen will eat well until she reaches optimal weight and be processed into meat.
A hen doesn't necessarily have to be fattened up for laying, but they do need to be in very good condition. Laying hens need lots of protein and minerals, a good feed should have at least 13% protein, and it doesn't hurt to add a source of calcium (such as ground oyster shell). The extra calcium helps the hens to lay stronger-shelled eggs.
Yes, it's normal. Your Rooster is just protecting your hen while she's laying.
Layer feed or Layer mash gives the laying hen extra calcium and protein which is needed to produce good quality eggs. Nothing you can feed a hen will make her lay more eggs, just improve the quality of those eggs she does produce.
Feed it to a laying hen. Wait a couple days. She'll lay a new egg.
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Resting a hen for a second laying production is called a molt. Chickens do not produce eggs when they are growing their new feathers.
The hen who is laying will have an inflamed comb. When they stop laying or aren't laying yet, their combs become a pinkish-pale color.
There is no way to force a hen to lay. You can bump up their nutrition by feeding more layer feed. You can add a tonic to their water to increase vitamin intake. But if they are just starting to become old enought to lay, have patience is all you can really do.
You take care of it, feed it and give it shelter. :?
That would be a hen that lays eggs, or one that is used for laying eggs as opposed to one raised to be fattened and eaten.