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To: ZULU
I wonder how many laying hens I need to get a dozen eggs a week?

One good laying hen will lay 1 egg a day, every day. So two chickens will give you 14 a week. Here in the Midwest when it gets real cold chickens will stop laying or when they "molt" losing their feathers.

54 posted on 01/02/2015 7:24:05 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: painter

So you need three birds, two hens and a rooster?


58 posted on 01/02/2015 7:28:26 AM PST by ZULU (Quo usque tandem abutere Obama patientia nostra?)
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To: painter

some guys use lights and heat lights in the coops to keep chickens laying through the winter.

I like to give my hens an offseason just like ballplayers. Heal up and come out in the spring swinging.


67 posted on 01/02/2015 7:40:48 AM PST by roofgoat
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