Chickens will lay eggs in sub zero temperatures. Here in Canada temperature drop below freezing for almost 4 months of the year regularly and chickens continue to lay eggs. Temperature changes are much less a factor to egg laying as light. A chicken needs 14 hours of light per day to produce eggs.
When they first shed that shell and start moving around they should remain at the same 100 F and high humidity until they are fluffy and dry. They can then be removed to a brooder box where the temperature should be at least 95F under the heat lights. This can be reduced by 5 Degrees every few days until they are living in about 70 degrees F.
In cold climates, they should be kept in this temperature until daily temps reach at least 70 F.
Around 100 degrees F
The incubation temperature of chicken eggs should be 99.5F to 100.5F. Temperatures over 101.F will reduce the hatch by 50%. See the links below for more in depth information.
The temperature depends on what you are incubating in. If you have a still air - the temp should be 101.5, if you have a fan model - the temp should be 99.5.
Between 99-102 degrees to simulate mother hen's body temperature. Temps under or over wil produce weak chicks.
99-102F is an acceptable range for incubation. I like to incubate mine at 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit exactly.
55-60 Degrees Fahrenheit
Minus 1 or maybe very cold.
90degrees
Chickens will lay more eggs when it is warm and sunny. You can put a light where the nests are to innfluence the chickens to lay more eggs.
Yes. That's why we put lights in the coop during winter because there are less hours in the day. Chickens need at least 17 hours of light to lay eggs normally.
Hens are chickens.Hens are female chickens and lay eggs.Roosters are male chickens and do not lay eggs.So your answer is YES, you need a hen to lay eggs.
Yes All chickens will lay eggs without the need for a rooster. All a rooster does is fetilize the eggs, it does not induce the hen to lay an egg, she will do this anyway.
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Not at all. Chickens do not need to mate to lay eggs, but they must mate in order for these eggs to be fertile, i.e. able to hatch into chicks.
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Simple logic: Meat queen chickens lay eggs; meat king chickens lay meat queen chickens.
no they lay eggs THEY DON'T!! but some chickens lay eggs that turn into chicks over time
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.
Hens are mom chickens and roosters are dad chickens. Only mom chickens, hens, lay eggs. They lay eggs all year.
no you dont