What music helps a chicken lay more eggs?

Answer 1

This is debatable. Many hobby farmers believe it does but you seldom hear music on in a commercial barn. Commercial farmers study every possible way to increase yield yet playing music is not generally accepted as useful.

As a small operation farmer myself I have always played the radio for my chickens, while I cannot say that the birds are more content and therefore lay more eggs I do know it helps keep some of the more "intelligent" predators away. Rats and weasels don't care but the coyotes know the voices are human and they do not bother the birds at night.

Answer 2

Music does not effect the egg production of hens. Many studies have been done to try and prove this theory. Empirical evidence shows hens in a silent barn lay just as many eggs as hens exposed to various forms of music including live symphonies.

Many small farms do keep music playing however, simply because some of the higher predators like coyotes fear the sound of humans and will avoid the area where music or talking is ongoing.

Personally, my barn has continual soft rock playing.