It can take 6 to 12 months before Barnevelder hens start to lay eggs. The exact time is different for each hen.
Hens typically need 12-14 hours of darkness per day to rest and recharge before their bodies start producing eggs. This rest period helps regulate their reproductive hormones and keep them healthy and productive.
All hens lay eggs.
There is no such thing as a "boy hen". Hens are female chickens.
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.
Hens are mom chickens and roosters are dad chickens. Only mom chickens, hens, lay eggs. They lay eggs all year.
The hen sits three weeks on it's eggs before it hatches
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.
21 days from the first day conditions are optimum. A constant temperature of 100 F and a humidity of 60% are ideal. Hens will take up to a week to collect a clutch of eggs and then start brooding when enough eggs are collected. Hens will steal eggs laid by other hens to add to her clutch.
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.
Orpingtons are fairly moderate early maturing and should lay their first egg at about 7 months old. Start them on laying mash at about 5 months for best eggs.
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Yes they defiantly can :) I have 3 Hens no Roster here and we get eggs daily