Chicken eggs in winter - NOT FOR BENDER

[lariat]

I keep seeing the issue of chickens not laying at the moment. To help troubleshoot this issue I am trying to compile solutions for the Hide Chiken Crew. I am not experiencing the same issue but have before. There may be a couple of reasons. See below. Implenting some of these solutions may help regardless of the feed type. I have done a number of these and the lights and breed changes have worked for me.

How To Help Keep Chickens Laying Eggs In Winter - The Hen's Loft

Many of us live in colder climates where winters can be brutal. Here are 10 different things you can do to help keep your chickens laying eggs in winter.

thehensloft.com

Chapter Two: How To Keep Chickens Laying Eggs During Winter - The Happy Chicken Coop

In the second chapter of The Definitive Guide To Keeping Chickens In Winter we look at how to keep your chickens laying fresh eggs during the winter months.

www.thehappychickencoop.com

 

[n2ishun]

Chickens can't lay eggs when they are impaled on a human dick.
That should be obvious......shouldn't it ?

 

[ewoaf]

I'm trying to stop mine as they seem to be all played out come spring and then I can't get any more chicks during brooding season.

 

[Maggot]

@armorpl8chikn

 

[Bender]

This was done on purpose

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

I was mistaken on the feed that I mentioned in the other thread.
I guess the wife has changed up the feed and I wasn't paying attention since it's usually 5:30am when I feed and water the critters.

This is what she switched to from Rural King.

 

[BurtG]

This was done on purpose

I’m as spoiler alert as anyone

But they could have been dropping the protein content to meet price points with Adolfo Biden’s inflation.

Proteins the expensive part

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

We have a string of lights over the run and the timer turns them on at 5:15 to daylight in the morning and then again at 5:30 till 7:30 in the evening. Usually they are roosted by 6:30 in the evening. It's usually dark around 5:40.
We are getting an egg a day on most days.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Considering diesel prices, fertilizer price and other inflation that protein is only going to go up

I’m as spoiler alert as anyone

But they could have been dropping the protein content to meet price points with Adolfo Biden’s inflation.

Proteins the expensive part

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Did someone shine the Chikn symbol.
Its a light that shines a big cock into the night sky, but thats not important right now.

Story's book on raising chickens, the most thorough book on the subject of raising any kind of chicken.

Not laying in the winter eh?
Pick a different breed. (Austrolorps hold the laying record)
Rotate your flock, ie, raise new pullets. This is a factor with a chicken over 3 years old.
Higher protein feed, or better laying mash/pellet.
Play music for them....no bull...play music for them. I'd guess something "croony" like maybe Dean Martin or some slow Elvis songs. Pamper them.
If they are moulting they aren't gonna lay as well, again, they'll need higher protein to make feathers plus eggs.
Pure breeds just aren't gonna produce eggs like a sex link laying breed. If you need maximum egglitude then get a hybrid breed and rotate every 2.5 to 3 years. A hen that lays steady for 24 to 36 months is ready for the stew pot. Laid out pellets make the best stew, soup, salad, etc you will ever eat. The ovaries are a delicacy to folks in the know.
Move to a warmer climate.

Off the top of my head thats all I got, I'm sure I've forgotten half of what I know.
We were never without laying hens up till I was 18.
I'm about to get in the chicken bidness again soon. Wife won't let me have many, despite my insistence it is now a money maker. I have to pick one breed. Itll likely be Australorps.
If I had my way, I'd have 2 separate flocks. 50 sex links for selling eggs, and around 25 pure bred for raising bitties.

 

[lariat]

Did someone shine the Chikn symbol.
Its a light that shines a big cock into the night sky, but thats not important right now.

Story's book on raising chickens, the most thorough book on the subject of raising any kind of chicken.

Not laying in the winter eh?
Pick a different breed. (Austrolorps hold the laying record)
Rotate your flock, ie, raise new pullets. This is a factor with a chicken over 3 years old.
Higher protein feed, or better laying mash/pellet.
Play music for them....no bull...play music for them. I'd guess something "croony" like maybe Dean Martin or some slow Elvis songs. Pamper them.
If they are moulting they aren't gonna lay as well, again, they'll need higher protein to make feathers plus eggs.
Pure breeds just aren't gonna produce eggs like a sex link laying breed. If you need maximum egglitude then get a hybrid breed and rotate every 2.5 to 3 years. A hen that lays steady for 24 to 36 months is ready for the stew pot. Laid out pellets make the best stew, soup, salad, etc you will ever eat. The ovaries are a delicacy to folks in the know.
Move to a warmer climate.

Off the top of my head thats all I got, I'm sure I've forgotten half of what I know.
We were never without laying hens up till I was 18.
I'm about to get in the chicken bidness again soon. Wife won't let me have many, despite my insistence it is now a money maker. I have to pick one breed. Itll likely be Australorps.
If I had my way, I'd have 2 separate flocks. 50 sex links for selling eggs, and around 25 pure bred for raising bitties.

Nothing but truth in this post. Especially about keeping track of the hens and chopping necks at 2.5-3. The most expensive bird is the one not giving up anything. Into the pot you go!

The sex link birds are hardy as hell. , tame, are good layers and offer decent meat when the day arrives. For the most part I’m not a fan of pure breds, they seem to get sick easier. I also always have setters, usually bantams. But I have had austrolorps that got all broody and would raise the chicks out. Try to take an egg from under them and you’d come back with a nub for a hand.

 

[eca7891]

https://www.americanpartisan.org/20...o-stop-board-has-ties-to-wef-jeffrey-epstein/

Not judging just a passing it along.

 

[forrestgump01]

Play music for them....no bull...play music for them. I'd guess something "croony" like maybe Dean Martin or some slow Elvis songs. Pamper them.

Try the following .
You can thank me later.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I am NOT gonna Rick Roll my chickens!

 

[forrestgump01]

Now there blaming chicken eggs for "died suddenly " !

Scientists Warn Eggs Are Causing Thousands of People to ‘Suddenly’ Form Blood Clots

Scientists are now warning the public that consuming eggs could cause blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.

newspunch.com

 

[n2ishun]

Did someone shine the Chikn symbol.
Its a light that shines a big cock into the night sky to direct me to the cock I crave, but thats not important right now.

Dood.
Get back in the closet.
There's some shit that just doesn't need to be voiced in public.







/s

 

[acudaowner]

might keep them in that special mood

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Dood.
Get back in the closet.
There's some shit that just doesn't need to be voiced in public.







/s

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What you did there....see it i do.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

The local weather chick
one of my chicks

 

[JoshPutman]

Now there blaming chicken eggs for "died suddenly " !

Scientists Warn Eggs Are Causing Thousands of People to ‘Suddenly’ Form Blood Clots

Scientists are now warning the public that consuming eggs could cause blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.

newspunch.com

Oh for fucks sake. They've gone back and forth on eggs so many times in the last 40 years that I don't believe a god damn thing they say about it any more. I'm just gonna keep eating them.

Like my late stepdad used to say, "If it takes ten years off my life, it's gonna take it off the ass end where I ain't gonna miss it."

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Wouldn't it suck to not live life so you can live longer?

Oh for fucks sake. They've gone back and forth on eggs so many times in the last 40 years that I don't believe a god damn thing they say about it any more. I'm just gonna keep eating them.

Like my late stepdad used to say, "If it takes ten years off my life, it's gonna take it off the ass end where I ain't gonna miss it."

 

[ggmanning]

Mine lay year round. They lay a little less in the winter. My girls are a complete mix of everything. We have had a lot of different chickens the last 25 years and let them breed and raise at will.

 

[ewoaf]

Here's my boy Thomas Cribb, a Delaware Blue. I raise heritage breeds for living history, mostly game roos. The wife keeps a few 18-19th c bantam breeds that were popular with many of the gentry ladies.

 

[lariat]

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Here's my boy Thomas Cribb, a Delaware Blue. I raise heritage breeds for living history, mostly game roos. The wife keeps a few 18-19th c bantam breeds that were popular with many of the gentry ladies.

What bantam breeds? You have my interest.

 

[ewoaf]

What bantam breeds? You have my interest.

Nankin and white crested black polish. The polish were getting common by the mid 19th c but Thomas Jefferson's daughter was raising nankins for the lols as early as the late 18th c. We just don't have hardly any records of poultry in the 18th c as it was viewed as more of a pursuit of the poors. Game cocks, however, were a booming endeavor of every correction of society so, more often than not, what records do exist are of game breeds or the "pets"

 

[lariat]

Nankin and white crested black polish. The polish were getting common by the mid 19th c but Thomas Jefferson's daughter was raising nankins for the lols as early as the late 18th c. We just don't have hardly any records of poultry in the 18th c as it was viewed as more of a pursuit of the poors. Game cocks, however, were a booming endeavor of every correction of society so, more often than not, what records do exist are of game breeds or the "pets"

That's fascinating history. Thanks for sharing that. That Nankin is a good looking bird.

 

[Darayavaus]

Now there blaming chicken eggs for "died suddenly " !

Scientists Warn Eggs Are Causing Thousands of People to ‘Suddenly’ Form Blood Clots

Scientists are now warning the public that consuming eggs could cause blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.

newspunch.com

"chust eat ze bugs unt be happy, untermensch!" - K Schwab

 

[supercorndogs]

Oh for fucks sake. They've gone back and forth on eggs so many times in the last 40 years that I don't believe a god damn thing they say about it any more. I'm just gonna keep eating them.

Like my late stepdad used to say, "If it takes ten years off my life, it's gonna take it off the ass end where I ain't gonna miss it."

ITs not just eggs, the entire food pyramid was bullshit.

 

[lariat]

A video I found on accident but is intriguing.