What makes a good egg layer? On Episode 228 of Mother Earth News and Friends, we chat with Audra Trosper, Lead Editor of Goat Journal and Associate Editor of Backyard Poultry magazines. Learn about what to look for in the best egg layers, and how to support and nourish your layer hens through their annual cycles of laying and molting.
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Transcript: Best Egg Layers
Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] A lot of people get chicks and raise them as day old hatchlings. How do you tell if a chicken is laying eggs?
Audra Trosper: Their combs and their waddles will start getting nice and red when they get ready to start laying. That doesn’t mean they are laying. It means they’re getting ready to start laying. Generally, you can start telling they’re laying eggs when they start singing. They all seem to have the egg song. And it’s funny because like I order chicks in, raise them up, they’ve obviously never been around a mama chicken, but yet they still sing the egg song, after they leave the nest, to like draw the predators away from the area of the nest, like you know, “hey look I’m over here, nothing over there.”
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Kenny Coogan: Good day, everyone. I am Kenny Coogan, and joining me on this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends is Audra Trosper, the Editor in Chief of Goat Journal magazine, Associate Editor of Backyard Poultry, and herder of chickens for over 20 years. Today, we are going to be talking about the best egg layers.
Welcome to the podcast, Audra.
Audra Trosper: [00:02:00] Thank you for having me.
How often do chickens lay eggs?
Kenny Coogan: All right, so people get chickens, usually for eggs. How often do chickens lay eggs?
Audra Trosper: That depends on the chicken, depends on the breed, depends on the time of year. Generally, a good chicken, a good layer is going to lay about once a day. Out of a seven day stretch, if you get five eggs from her, that’s a really good, that’s a really good deal. You know your leghorns, of course, are going to lay like machines. They’re just going to pop them out every single day, but usually at the expense of longevity, so there’s like that short term effect where you’re going to get lots of eggs, but then over her life, you’re not going to get quite as many.
What is the chicken egg production cycle?
Kenny Coogan: Can you talk to us a little bit about what is the chicken egg production cycle? Because you kind of teased that they’re going to have peaks in the first couple of years and then it’s going to go downhill.
Audra Trosper: You’re going to have peaks. You’re also going to have that whole molt cycle. So they’re going to, they’re going to lay and then starting that first year, you know, they’ll lay all the way through. And then that [00:03:00] next fall, they’re going to molt. So they’re not going to lay while they’re molting because they’re too busy making feathers. They don’t have anything extra for eggs. They don’t, they don’t have the time or the energy or the whatever for that. So once they get through molt, they’ll pick up laying again.
Generally that second year, there’s a little bit less than the first year. And as they go through each molt, there’s a little bit less. I mean, most hens will continue to lay till they’re several years old. They may only do two or three eggs a week, depending on the health, the breed, the longevity again of the hen.
That cycle, it, it definitely, it’s up and down. So you’re going to go through periods where you have a lot of eggs, especially if you have a larger flock, there’s going to be more eggs than you know what to do with. And then you’re going to go through periods where you’re like, what do you mean I have to buy eggs? If you didn’t preserve any of them, you’re going to be going to the store to buy eggs while you continue to buy feed for the chickens.
Kenny Coogan: Because usually when they molt, they all molt.
Audra Trosper: That depends on breed. You have some breeds who do what they call, like it’s basically a continuous molt. So they’re always losing feathers and they’re always replacing feathers. So like [00:04:00] Wyandottes are some of those who do that. So they never actually get that naked look. In the fall is typically when most hens molt, not all of them. Some of them will explode at different times of the year just to drive you crazy. I really think that’s like they get together, they have a whole meeting on who is going to drive the keeper crazy this time. But most of them, yes, in the fall, you get those breeds that do that main molt all at once. Your chicken pen looks like there’s been some sort of an attack in there your birds are naked. It’s awful looking.
Kenny Coogan: Yep. That’s what I first thought you open up the chicken coop one morning and you think there was a massacre because all the feathers are on the ground.
Audra Trosper: Feathers everywhere, it’s like, oh, she exploded. Very good. So, and you know, of course you get a food that’s higher in protein, less in calcium. They’re not laying, they don’t need the extra calcium, but they do need the extra protein. Some people feed chick food, some people feed like a feather fixer or something along that line. So you get that really heavy dose of protein to really help them bring in the new feathers a little quicker. [00:05:00] Especially if they decide to wait until like late fall when certain areas are dropping down, we’re going to get 20 degrees at night. And they’re like, oh, you decided now is a good time to ditch all the feathers.
Smart.
Old Hens and Henopause
Kenny Coogan: Some of these chicken breeds are very prolific laying, you know, on average, maybe five eggs a week. Then you were saying earlier that sometimes when they get a little older, they might only lay two to four eggs a week. And that made me think of my neighbor who has a Americana or Easter egger that bird is like 12 years old. And it lays two to four eggs a year.
Audra Trosper: Yes. When they get very old they do get down to where they just, they rarely lay any eggs at all. They will eventually go through what they call henopause, where they quit laying eggs altogether, if they, if they live that long. So, depending again on the longevity of the breed, some of them are, are bred to go the distance and some of them are not, unfortunately. And they, a lot of times [00:06:00] they’ll start having health problems and all kinds of things by the time they’re two or three years old.
But in that time, they lay bucket loads of eggs.
Kenny Coogan: And when my neighbor’s elderly chicken does lay her two to four annual eggs, my neighbor gets very excited.
Audra Trosper: Yes. Yeah. So it’s like, “Oh, she laid again.” Yeah. So it’s fun. I’ve had them live up to about 13 and yeah, occasionally they lay an egg. Sometimes it’s hard to tell even if they’re still laying, if you have other younger flock members and they don’t lay like a, like an Easter egger or whatever that will lay a certain color of an egg, it might be easier to tell. So if you haven’t just your general brown layers and you have a lot of brown layers, you might not necessarily know she laid or not, but there are some hens who for one reason or another just they get retirement so they they just live out their entire lives. And whether they’re laying or not, they get to fluff around doing their thing.
Kenny Coogan: We’re talking about the chicken egg [00:07:00] production cycle, and we talked about their lifespan and their egg lifespan, but can you talk about the day to day biology of how a chicken lays an egg?
Audra Trosper: Usually they have several in their track at a time. So they’re lined up in the track. And it depends on how many they are going to lay. I have some hens that lay it seems like on the dot every morning like she’s in the nest box every morning at this time. Not being a chicken, I don’t know if they can choose that time or if it’s just kind of a, oh wait, this is the time the egg is coming. I don’t really know how that works for them on that one. I have some hints, I have one that she waffles back and forth. Sometimes she likes to be in, in the morning and other times she’s wandering in in the afternoon instead. So. I don’t know if that’s just how her production goes or, again, if there’s a choice in that, like, “hey, yeah, sure, I like to lay in the morning or in the afternoon.” I don’t want to know on that one.
Kenny Coogan: When I think of cartoons or old [00:08:00] movies, they always depict the chickens laying in the morning, but I’ve definitely seen chickens walking around the backyard and then they run to the nest box or they’ll just lay an egg right in the yard in the afternoon.
Audra Trosper: Yep, sometimes they do. I’ve got some dedicated morning layers and I’ve got some, some that come in in the afternoon.
So it just depends on the chicken and I’m not really sure if that’s a, it doesn’t seem to really be a breed thing. And I don’t know if it’s just how their particular production kicked in that time or if it’s I’m really not sure what dictates. Now I’m going to have to look and see if there’s a study on what dictates what time of day they lay an egg.
Kenny Coogan: A lot of people get chicks and raise them as day old hatchlings. How do you tell if a chicken is laying eggs?
Audra Trosper: Their combs and their waddles will start getting nice and red when they get ready to start laying. That doesn’t mean they are laying. It means they’re getting ready to start laying. Generally, you can start telling they’re laying eggs when they start singing. They all seem to [00:09:00] have the egg song. And it’s funny because like I, I order chicks in, raise them up, they’ve obviously never been around a mama chicken, but yet they still sing the egg song, so I’m assuming that’s an instinctual thing, I’m not sure, there’s some disagreements on why, like some people think they do it, after they leave the nest, to like draw the predators away from the area of the nest, like you know, “hey look I’m over here, there’s definitely no look over there, nothing over there.”
Other times I think they’re just really proud of the fact they laid an egg. Everybody else sometimes sings with her. She’s like, you know, it’s like “she laid an egg”. I don’t know if they’re just very congratulatory of each other on that one. And then of course keep looking in the nest boxes as, as they go because we had one hen, nice red wattles and comb in and out of the chicken house for a good week before she actually laid. She’d go in there, she’d walk around. She actually sang the egg song a couple of times with no eggs. So it just took her a little bit to realize exactly what all was going on.
Kenny Coogan: When I first think about how to identify what chickens are laying, I think about that bright [00:10:00] red comb and wattle, and then when they are molting, they go back to a dull color.
Audra Trosper: Yeah, it’s kind of a dull, yeah, pale color. I’m assuming it’s just because they’re like dedicating different resources, I’m guessing. But yeah, it’s interesting how that kind of comes and goes. It’s like an indicator.
Kenny Coogan: Same with chicken age, as they get a little older, they, those colors get a little more dull, and then you can see who’s the freeloader, and if you want to keep them as a pet, or
Audra Trosper: Yeah, and, you know, sometimes that, like, again, if you, she’s laying a few eggs a year, maybe one egg a week, she might not be real brightly filmed, but she might still be producing a little bit. And of course, she does have other uses. She’s still going to eat bugs, help turn the garden soil, that kind of thing. So, you know, she’s not without use. She just, it’s a different one.
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Kenny Coogan: We’re back with Audra discussing what makes a good egg layer. So Audra, what are some of the best egg laying chicken breeds?
Best Egg-Laying Chicken Breeds
Audra Trosper: The best breeds depend on your goals as a chicken keeper. So if you just want lots of eggs all the time, you’re going to want to cycle out your chickens on a regular basis, and you’re going to want to go with your sex linked type breeds. So like your [00:12:00] red sex links, they’re ISA Browns or Golden Comets or whatever, but they’re all a cross, which means, sex link means that they can tell as soon as they hatch, whether they’re a boy or girl, the female hens hatch a totally different color than the males. So you’re, it’s real easy to, to sex them out and know what’s what.
You have your, like your black stars, your black sex links, they’re, you know, your red sexlings. You have your Austrawhites, which are a cross between the Australorps and Leghorns. So they lay a lot of eggs. And of course you have leghorns. Leghorns, like I said, are a machine. And, but those also tend to burn out faster. So you’re looking at a hen whose longevity is roughly about three, maybe four years if you’re lucky. They just don’t, it’s like they give everything to all of those eggs and they just don’t last as long generally. Some do, not all of them. Obviously I had Lucy she was a black sexlink. She lived to be like 12 and occasionally laid still, but she’s kind of an outlier.
Then you have your heritage breeds, your Australorps, Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, really [00:13:00] good breeds solid egg laying. If you’re looking for good mothers to go with your layers, Bantams, Bantams will hatch anything. You can put any, literally any egg, it doesn’t matter, you can probably put an ostrich egg under her and she will hatch that thing or she’ll try anyway.
Speckled Sussex, really good mothers Swedish Flowerhens, some of the best mothers. So those are some of your breeds. We do have, you know, if you go to uh, backyardpoultry. com, you can find a lot of articles on the various breeds. If you’re hot weather, cold weather, that’s another thing. People who live in the South are going to need different kind of breeds than what’s in the North.
Like, I would really love to have the Chantecler . They’re a Canadian breed. They were actually bred for the cold Canadian winters, but they do not do well in heat. And in Kansas, we swing from, that’s where I am, from really, really cold winters, we can get down to below zero in the winter and stuff, no problem. But in the summer, we’re also going to go up over 100. So we’re kind of the land of extremes. [00:14:00] And unfortunately, they do not handle the heat well enough, at least from what I’ve read. I didn’t want to risk it. You know, to me, it’s not fair to the bird. So you’re going to want a lighter weight bird if you’re in the south.
You’re going to want a heavier bird if you’re in the north. Some of them have feathers on their legs. That can be good or bad. If you live in a cold, dry area, that’s great. If you live in a cold wet area, those feathered legs are actually more of a liability than a help because the feathers get wet and prevent legs from really staying warm or anything.
So there, it kind of, it all depends on, on your goals as, as a breeder or herder, chicken herder, keeper, whatever you want to call us. So your goals there, what you want out of them, and then your location where you live. And it depends on, and what you’re looking for. Like I said, if you want longevity, you want a heritage breed.
If you want. a lot of short term eggs, and a lot of people combine the two, so you get a little bit of both out of your flock, which is what I have.
Kenny Coogan: I don’t think it was you, but, oh, I think I remember who it was. It [00:15:00] was Jeanette Bearanger from the Livestock Conservancy she was making fun of my naked neck chickens. She said she would never own one, and I loved my naked necks, and they were very good egg layers, because I’m in Florida and in addition to not having feathers on their neck, they also have a roughly about half the amount of feathers as a “typical” chicken. Yeah, everywhere. And they did excellent.
They were very prolific, you know, four to five eggs a week.
Audra Trosper: It’s not a chicken I would want for looks, but if I lived down further south, that would definitely be something I would look into because you have to consider beyond looks, you have to consider productivity for your area. You don’t want to just feed a bunch of hens if they can’t or have them dropping dead on you in the heat.
That’s awful. Even with mine now, I have misters that run along the south side of my pen where it’s nice and shady. So when it gets up in the high 90s or whatever, I, I kick those on, you can just feel the temperature in the pen drop and the chickens all run and they [00:16:00] just stand there. They love the misters.
Kenny Coogan: So we’re talking about what are the best egg laying chicken breeds, and I’m glad that you mentioned leghorns, but I’m also glad that you mentioned bantams, because, for instance, leghorns come in both standard fowl size and bantam size, and while they’re both, or lots of chickens breeds are laying lots of eggs, if you get bantams, you’re going to be getting tiny little eggs.
Audra Trosper: Yes, you are.
Little eggs. I’ve never kept bantams simply for that reason. A lot of people do, but I have limited space, so for me I have to make sure that what I’m keeping is going, you know, doing what I need it to do. I, oh, I’m so bad when I set up a second pen though. Just a little pen. I just have a little tiny flock of bantams because they are so stinkin’ cute.
I don’t even care if they lay. But yeah, yeah, you can get the light form in the bantams if you have really cramped space and you just can’t keep large [00:17:00] hens or for whatever reason you don’t feel like you want to keep large hens. Banthams are an obviously definitely an option. I mean, yeah, you may have to use two eggs instead of one to for a recipe or something, but you know, they’re definitely an option.
A lot of people really like them. They’re adorable. Oh, they’re so cute.
Kenny Coogan: I’m assuming that if people have gotten this far in the podcast or are familiar with our podcast they know this answer, but whenever I do public engagement, I’m always surprised , in the year 2024, people still ask me, do you need a rooster to get eggs?
Audra Trosper: That question crops up every year in chicken groups. It’s a guaranteed thing. No, you do not need a rooster. Hens are going to lay their eggs. The only thing a rooster does is fertilize eggs so that you can have chicks. He has nothing to do with the production of eggs any more than the tomcat has to do with the female cat going into heat or any of the other reproductive processes that [00:18:00] happen.
He just has nothing to do with that. He is a protector of the flock if he’s a good rooster. Some of them can be very hard on the hens, especially if you have an enclosed area, so you have to be careful. But yeah, they can be really good for protecting your flock and watching out for them. They can break up fights between the hens.
They like to go, they find treats, they’ll holler, call up the hens, hey look, I found something, and they’ll all run over and, you know, get it. So there are places for him in the flock, but it’s not in the egg making area. You don’t need him. He doesn’t have any.
Kenny Coogan: yeah, so those sex links chicken breeds are good because then you can just say I only want females and it’s easy.
Audra Trosper: It’s absolutely it’s the appeal. It’s why a lot of people go with them. You order red sex links of any kind, you order black sex links of any kind. When they send you the female chicks, you know, you got female chicks because they’re going to be the darker colored ones. The male chicks are going to be a nice fluffy, like yellow color generally.
So if you got one of them in there, you know, you’ve got a male chick, [00:19:00] you know so yeah, those are really easy you tend to have, you definitely have, don’t have the issue with the, the random rooster showing up in the flock. Or, then you have to decide what you’re going to do with.
Kenny Coogan: Yeah, or getting half of your chicks turn out to be roosters.
Audra Trosper: That seems to happen with the feed stores. I know, the running joke in chicken groups and stuff is when they say, what do they do with all the roosters that are born at the hatcheries? Everybody says, they ship them to the feed stores. So yeah, I don’t buy from feed stores because usually if you, if you get straight run, especially most of those are probably going to be roosters and butchering them out.
It doesn’t really matter. But, you know,
Kenny Coogan: Yeah, it’s not 50 50 like you would think a straight run is.
Audra Trosper: No, no, no. That’s because I almost think it has to be because so many people are ordering female chicks only from the hatcheries, they are going to have this is what they’re going to have left, you know, you’re offering straight run.
This is what they have. And for some people, it doesn’t matter. you know, depending on what they’re used this for, you know, doesn’t really matter. And even then [00:20:00] sometimes you get, now, I did get lucky because I got three lavender orpingtons from the feed store this year. They were supposed to be hens only, and all three of them are hens.
One of them has issues, but she seems healthy. And happy, so I let her be, but she’s a strange looking chicken. She’s not put together right. The other two are perfect, but the one is just I’ve never seen a chicken look quite like that. It’s interesting. I’ll have to get a picture of her.
Chicken Breed That Lays the Most Eggs
Kenny Coogan: So we’re talking about the best egg laying chicken breeds, and you listed a lot of them, but is there a chicken breed that stands out for laying the most eggs?
Audra Trosper: That’d be the leghorn hands down, unless you’re going with one of the sexlinks. From what I understand, Austrawhites really produce the eggs. I actually have three of those in my flock this year. I decided to try them. I wanted to see how they do. And they were my first layers. So they laid at 16 weeks, 15 weeks. I mean, leagues [00:21:00] before anybody else started, they were already starting, you know? So that’s kind of a good sign. As far as I’m concerned is for a heavy layer. We’ll see how they go. They’re also very pretty hen. So it’s kind of nice when you can get the pretty and the production at the same time.
So we’ll see how that goes. Like I said for me, this is a test. I’ve never had them before. So we’ll see how they go. But the reports I’ve read are that they lay really well.
Kenny Coogan: My australorps, my black australorps, were very prolific.
Audra Trosper: Yes australorps rank right up there, which is why I think the, the, the Austrawhites do so well, is because they are a cross between the leghorn and the australorp.
So you’ve got those two powerhouses in their heritage.
Chicken Breeds That Lay Brown Eggs
Kenny Coogan: And speaking of those breeds, listeners would like to know, what kind of chickens lay brown eggs?
Audra Trosper: Lots of them, actually. Well, your Australorps, your Plymouth Rocks, your Rhode Island Reds, your Black sexlinks, your Red sexlinks they all lay your brown eggs.
Your [00:22:00] leghorns, your Austrawhites, they lay white eggs. Well, actually, the Austrawhite’s a green egg. It’s not white. It’s green. But yeah, there’s, there’s so many that lay brown eggs. It almost seems like there’s more that lay, at least in the standard chickens, that lay brown eggs than that do white eggs.
We just see, people see white eggs at the supermarket so much because leghorns are used in commercial hatcher, layer facilities for the most part because of the amount and the size of egg that they lay.
Kenny Coogan: And then those cuckoo Marans lay beautiful. Chocolate brown eggs.
Audra Trosper: The Marans in general, and it does have an s on the end for anybody who’s new to this Marans, you don’t just say a ‘Maran’ chicken, they are a Marans at all times, whether you’re talking about one or two, you know and they come in, there’s cuckoo Marans, there’s the black Marans, there’s, I have a splash Marans in my flock, she’s so pretty, and then I have two of the Wheaton Marans in my flock. and I really like [00:23:00] them. And yes, they all lay dark brown eggs. If I remember right though, the copper, black copper, French black copper Marans is, lays the darkest of them from what I’ve read. I’ve not had a ton of Marans, so this is kind of my, my first time. I’ve had cuckoo Marans in the past and they did lay dark.
But keep in mind, they lay dark at the beginning. Their eggs usually get progressively lighter as they go through that egg laying cycle, and then once they molt and start laying again, the eggs are darker again. So, people keep that in mind.
Kenny Coogan: Other than having a really pretty Instagram post of having a rainbow of eggs in a basket hopefully listeners know that all the eggs taste the same, but are there benefits that you can think of other than looks.
I’m thinking that if you’re going to resell them, it might be nice to offer a dozen multicolored eggs.
Audra Trosper: Yeah, but that again, that’s where looks come in. There’s no actual nutritional [00:24:00] benefit or flavor benefit to the eggs. It’s if you resell, it’s, it’s all about the looks. It’s just the pretty you can have anything from blue, green, pink. Okay. You know, your tans all the way through your dark browns. There’s, there’s so many, a wide range of whites, creams, so many different colors you can have in a basket. And it really, it’s fun and it’s pretty. And why not, if you can, you know? So yeah, I mean, but other than that, no, there’s no nutritional value difference, there’s no taste difference.
There’s no, the Austrawhites eggs taste exactly the same as, the, the red sex link or the black sex link, or, you know, any of the other breeds I have out there.
Store-Bought Eggs vs. Farm Fresh Eggs
Kenny Coogan: I’m assuming that people who are listening to this podcast about what are the best egg layers, either want to add different chicken breeds or maybe start up. Can you talk a little bit about how fresh farm eggs do taste different or how they cook different than a, a 40 day old [00:25:00] store bought egg?
Audra Trosper: The store bought eggs, unless you’re buying the real expensive pasture raised eggs, pasture, not pasteurized, pasture raised eggs, and some of those do look pretty nice when you crack them open, but they’re also seven, eight dollars a dozen, maybe more, depending on your location.
The difference is phenomenal between home raised eggs and store bought eggs. Your home raised eggs, you have a bigger yolk, it’s a darker yellow. You actually do have because of the feed differences in the living situation for hens that are in your factory farms and your ones that are at home, you actually have better levels of proper cholesterols in the backyard eggs.
And if I remember right, there’s, there’s your vitamin levels are higher, things like that because factory chickens, unfortunately, even the ones that are free range, you know, cage free, that’s what it is, cage free. A lot of them, yes, they’re not in a cage, but they’re still in this giant warehouse, you know, building. They’re still crammed. They can barely [00:26:00] move. They’re like, yes, I have access to the outdoors. There was this teeny tiny little door in one corner of the thing. Most of them never see the outside in their entire lives and which are unfortunately short due to their living conditions. So a hen who is outside exposed to proper sunshine and fresh air and she’s getting bugs and she’s getting to to move around and live generally like a chicken should, is going to produce a healthier, I mean, you’re going to be healthier if you, you know, a human put in those two situations, one would be healthier than the other. So is the hen. So you’re inevitably going to have healthier eggs.
Kenny Coogan: Thank you so much, Audra, for today’s discussion on what makes a good egg layer.
Audra Trosper: Thank you for having me.
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About Audra Trosper
A coffee-loving squirrel brain whose superpower is forgetting where she put her phone while it’s in her hand, Audra is the Lead Editor of Goat Journal, Associate Editor of Backyard Poultry, and is a published author and avid gamer.
She has an itsy-bitsy, in-town hobby homestead (tiny town but still a town), where she raised dairy goats for over a decade, has maintained a flock of backyard chickens for 20 years, grows a vegetable garden, and cans the produce from it. When she isn’t wording (in one way or another), gaming, or caring for critters, she is thinking up some new project for her husband to build.
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