Chickens Only Lay Eggs In The Winter During Their First Year

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It's the omega 6 and antibiotics.

Once you mix them you are fucking with reproduction.

This debate is like the vaxx debate..

Face it, they poisoned your chickens. The real question is will they ever lay again? Like when will people start dropping from clots?

This is a really smart response. I had the same problem myself when making my own feed - didn’t have enough calcium so the chickens weren’t laying. Upped the calcium and had an abundance.

Homesteading is a lot of trial and error.

It's backyard chicken ranchers probably still feeding summer feed.

The egg supply issue is do to farms culling their herds. Avian flu or something. Also heard of shutdowns from some of the largest manufacturers and a few fires.

Get some calcium and peas into those chickens.

As for the farms closing.....blame gates and government red tape.

My chickens lay eggs all year. Rhode Island Red FWIW... not all varieties are the same.

Yup...if your gonna raise any type of animals you better get to know a good vet and a dietitian and an experienced farmer.

Everyone thinks chickens are easy.....until the bills come in or winter hits.

Reading all the disinformation and I'm getting embarrassed for all the new chicken owners.


I'm in Montana. It's winter. I'm getting almost a dozen eggs a day. With producers pride feed from tractor supply.


You guys are always looking for Bigfoot.

Chickens don't need some scientific calculation!

I literally gave my chickens deer corn for 6 month and they kept laying like crazy.

FACT - They put something in the feed ON PURPOSE! Come on man.. use common sense.. they are waging war on the people.

They need artificial sunlight in the winter you bunch of dorks.

you agree its chicken period?!

Nope. You don't have any proof of that and it's winter. In a few months no one will be saying anything about their chickens not laying. If anything they're not feeding their chickens enough. It's not rocket science.

Mine mildly slow down but i have 8 year old chickens that lay every couple days even in the winter. I live in a very cold climate, today is -31c with windchill...i do supply a hear bulb but leave the chicken run door open year round, so they can go outside if they want. So they do get natural sun.

Chickens
Love oyster shells and eating their own shells. Leave a bag of oyster shells open for them.

Of coarse they need light. All animals need light.

Corn is great for them. Peas or corn. High in protein. Chickens need higher protein in winter to burn off to keep them warm.

We throw carrots at them every day as well in winter. Chickens are basically garbage dumps that you can throw almost any plant at. Watch them go nuts for a gourd on a rope.

I have Swedish Flower hens now. They stopped laying in November and I have just recently started getting an egg or two per day. I have 7 hens and usually get 4 eggs per day in warm weather with longer days.

I used to have red sex links and they laid themselves to death.

I've raised chickens for 15 years and My chickens always laid through winter because I kept a heater in the coop and gave them cod liver oil in their feed. Cod liver oil is high in Vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced by sun exposure. Is there a correlation between Vitamin D production and egg laying? Probably. Also my chickens lived long lives and were still laying long past when they should have stopped. I also chose chicken breeds known to lay through winter. This post is bullsh**. The people posting about no eggs are experienced chicken keepers. They know that production drops during winter. They are talking about no eggs since late summer which no matter which way you cut it is unusual.

Another thing to remember is also that people lie. I know people personally who are blatant liars. The type of person that would hear news like “chickens aren’t laying eggs!!” and they’d literally call someone to talk about it and say that “theirs aren’t laying either OMG.”

There’s definitely truth somewhere but not all echos of the truth are actually truth.

What the Cluck.

I really didn't know this.

I get an egg every other day in the winter with my chickens and almost one a day in the summer. I also feed my chickens a choice of scratch grains and mash. They prefer grains.

Our free range chickens are 3 years old and laying well. They also get scratch and laying pellets, but are able to leave their chicken tractor daily and scratch in the dirt and eat green grasses daily even in winter, unless there is snow on the ground (rare). Not sure what breed you have. In the summer we tend to get one egg daily from the hens. In winter, an egg every other day. We also dont give additional light. We have Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds.

My chickens lay all year, less in the winter but still getting eggs. If you're 5yr old hens have zero eggs in winter, there is something wrong. less production, but should not be zero.

We cull approximately 1/3 of the flock at the end of their 3rd summer and replace them.

After 3 years laying drops off fast and they become food consuming "pets" not food producing stock. Your choice.




"Hens may live in backyard flocks for 6-8 years, and most flocks will produce eggs for 3-4 years. The level of egg production, egg size, and shell quality decrease each year. Most commercial layers are kept for 2-3 years as their egg production decreases after this time."


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Well I’m answering my own question so now l am crazy but at least at the right place to do so. Lol

British farmer Glenn Haggart is the latest to discover that playing music for laying hens reduces anxiety and stress, creating a safer environment for the chickens. After four years of playing music for his layers, he’s become a strong advocate.

A farmer has found that hens lay more eggs when they listen to opera music. Steve Ledsham played classical tracks and was shocked to find that a group of chickens laid almost twice their usual amount of eggs. A farmer has found that hens lay more eggs when they listen to opera music.

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Not correct.

I am sure egg farmers are shocked and intrigued by your info OP.......


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Yes, egg laying is a function of sunlight among other things.

People, like me, who have been raising chickens for years know that there is a drop in winter time due to sunlight and more energy spent keeping warm (if the chickens are in an unheated coop) and you live in northern climates.

Many are experiencing a vast reduction of egg production despite added lighting in the coops which has always worked before.

If you think that Big Ag isn't above putting additives in chicken feed to screw up laying, then you need to brush up on who the #1 farm land owner of the USA is.

Hint: Bill Gates.

Let's just all discuss this with expertise and certainty while nobody even thinks to mention that there are different breeds that have different traits.

But if we didn't over generalize everything, how could we blame phantom enemies for our self-created problems?

Hutterites up here in Canada sell off stock that is over a year old automatically. They don't even bother with older stock because of egg drop off after a year. So they cycle them out very fast and sell off the older stock for 2 bucks a chicken. We bought 50 to get started off them. Then used them for 6 months until our new chick's started. We then butchered rather than waist time with their hens. Why feed something that drops production? They still eat the same amount as new chickens.

It in reality it's Avian Influenza ( I will refer to as AI ) not feed, and yes increasing light increased production.

It's AI, there are 300,000,000 layers in America. We've lost 65,000,000 and counting to Avian Influenza. That's roughly 22% of all layers in production.

We manipulate the light 💡 in the houses, so they will mass produce all year round.


When the chickens get sick, they stop producing eggsSo when a positive AI is reported. The producer can't take a chance on it spreading so entire flock is eliminated.We had a bad outbreak in 2015 as well. This one is much worse.
Spread usually occurs on from wild birds that usually hang around chicken ranches. Such as Crow, Ravens and Egrets. Most of the contamination this time around came from back yard flocks in peoples backyards. They learned in 2015 that the virus can attach itself to your vehicle or clothing.

Vets went out to contaminated farms and inspected the birds. Then unknowingly when they'd go to another ranch and nothing was contaminated, after they'd leave the birds started getting sick. That's how they figured out the spread can be caused by humans bringing it to an contaminated environment on their clothes or cars. Because the virus 🦠 would live long enough in these conditions to find another host.

Since then, Biosecurity has been set up in almost all the production plants around the nation. We have to check in at a gate before being let in. Then once thru the gate all vehicles and trucks have to drive through a chemical sanitation wash that sprays the entire car including the under carriage. No truck drivers are aloud into the processing areas and each employee has to step into a sanitizing wash for their shoes prior to entering a building. No employee at the plants including USDA are allowed to own birds of any kind. If we have to send relief to another plant for a USDA employee, there has to be a full 24 hours in between before allowed to enter another facility.