We got an egg!!!

[auntieannie44]

Spring is  springing.  For the first time since last October we have an egg!! We have 2 Hamberg banties, 1 Wellsummer and 2 totally punk cross Legbars who have been living the life of Reilly over winter, the only exercise they have had is charging out of their pen when the door is opened straight to the greenhouse where they regard the outside world with interest and take copious quantities of dust baths in the loam in there.  At  last we hope to be seeing the fruits of their labours in ever increasing numbers very soon!

[bitsnknots]

That's good.  I love free range eggs.  Hope that you get lots more.

[chickengrandma-2008]

Now if you'd had hybrid hens you would have been having eggs every day! 

[ilove2patch]

My friend Jenny's hens have been laying all the time. 

[ed_blackadder_1]

How lovely can't beat your own eggs.
Dont different hens have different laying periods, some don't lay over the winter do they?

[chickengrandma-2008]

No, purebred chickens lay about 170 eggs a year whereas hybrids lay about 320.  Purebreds stop laying altogether over the winter, but hybrids lay throughout the year.  Purebreds live for about 10 years, laying for a good eight of those, hybrids live about three years but only laying for two. 

[1311rose]

I can't have chooks in my garden - house deeds prohibit it 

[merc1_clocks]

I miss my hens 

[bitsnknots]

When my mum was a girl, her family used to keep hens but this was back in the 1930's

[myraandjim]

my hens slowed down with laying over the winter but I kept getting the odd one or two every day - but yesterday I got seven so things are looking up! I've got a mix of pure breed and hybrid hens