Re: Lay cycle

Hello,

Just on line today with boradband. Anyway Hens lay on a 25 hour cycle, but
will have to stop laying during the moult, its shell or feather. But at
this time of year with the long nights a chicken would quickly come back
into lay. Also if you left a hen to sit on a cluch of eggs she would stop
laying or risk having to many young to feed. Its this trait that enables us
to have birds to provide my dinner.

Hope this helps a bit

Ian a proud daddy (of chicks) to be.

"diddy" <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns96A29BC3898FFdanny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I had one hen quit laying about 2-3 weeks ago. She was moulting, and i
> assumed had reached the end of her lay cycle. I didn't know how long this
> took. But i read somewhere that they quit laying in winter, and i
assumed,
> that she started her moult and ended her lay cycle for this year. She's
> back in production, as she gave me another egg today. How delightful. But
> i've done many searches on the internet on lay cycles, and can't find
much
> information on how long they last, and how long they stop between cycles.
> Is this because they vary widely?
>
> This one egg lays "large" eggs. But the other hen laying lays super jumbo
> eggs that are as big as large duck eggs. So it's easy to see whose eggs
> came from which hen. The one laying the smaller eggs, still is laying the
> smaller eggs, even though she just ccame off her rest. I understand once a
> chicken starts laying, those laying small eggs will continue to lay small
> eggs. These aren't small eggs, but they are substantially smaller than the
> hen that lays eggs so large that they don't fit in a "large" egg carton.
> You can't close the lid. I was hoping the hen that quit laying would rest
> up and regenerate her body longer. But i guess she's back


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