Know Your Egg Shed, Part II Egg Production

Reader Contribution by Pat Foreman
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I’m often amazed at the false expectations people have about a hen’s ability to lay eggs in family flocks. The two main false beliefs are:

1. Hens are regular egg machines providing consistent production year round — no matter what.

2. A hen that stops laying is done laying forever. For this, she is often prematurely sentenced to capital punishment; destined for the stewpot, or a one-way trip to freezer camp.

Chicken keepers need to know that there are many factors that affect a hen’s egg laying ability. Without this knowledge, many fine laying hens are put down too early in life.

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