[hillfooter]

and isn't about time they started to lay a few eggs now.  Mine stopped laying about the 3rd week in November to moult and to give them a rest I shut their nestboxes up. 

As they now have lovely new coats I thought it's about time they started again so I opened the boxes and put in a few pot eggs and lo and behold they started laying again within a few days.  So at last I can dispense with buying those tasteless supermarket eggs.

Actually I had an inkling they were getting ready to lay as they were acting super friendly and squating when I went into their run.  A sure sign eggs are on the way.  However I think the pot eggs gave them that final incentive.

If you don't have any pot eggs try a few golf balls instead they don't seem to mind as long as they are Top Flights.

HF

[joyfull]

mine are laying again as well - up from 3 a day to 8 today 

[Kate and her Ducks]

Wish mine were so easily fooled! Roll on the 23rd of Feb which is when mine start to lay.

Am trying a little experiment as have moved house to somewhere with a light over the back garden so have started to supplement their light to see if I can trick them into starting a little earlier. It doesn't seem to be working as the sods have started taking themselves off to bed at about 5 pm for the first times in theirs lives!

blooming-minded creatures! I don't know where they get it from!

[penninehillbilly]

I found 6 eggs in the goose hut the other day (the geese only live in 1/3), unfortunatly they'd been frozen solid and cracked.
(found a fresh one today though )

[Jeanette]

Mine are laying so well i have had to put up a sign saying eggs for sale.

[Carla]

Mine haven't stopped all winter!? Still getting 2 or 3 a day off my 3 girls, even when it was bitterly cold. Bless em x

[Sue33]

My three girls are giving me 1 - 2 eggs a day  :happy:

[carolbriar]

Mine started laying on the 22nd February last year but am hoping it will be a lot earlier this year!  I have just put a pot egg in one of the nest boxes this morning so am keeping my fingers crossed!  Hope it works as it did for Hillfooter.

[Bonniebean]

Mine started again on the 4th January, although one has been laying all winter! Three again today - makes you feel really cheery!

[carolbriar]

Its alright for some   Mine stopped weeks ago although one continued to lay every three or four days until the beginning of December when she started moulting.  I even had to buy some of those tasteless shop ones!

[Ruby Red]

 Dont mean to brag but . . . I must be doing something right as I have 7 hens and every day I have either 4, 5, or 6 ! They havent stopped laying all winter.  They are all different varieties as well .

[Hayley'sHens]

Mine hadnt lay over winter , Had 1 start again new years day but havent had any since Tuesday again, Not that Im surprised really. Back to shop bought rubbish for me 

[joyfull]

it all depends on the breed and the age of the birds. Some hybrids will lay most days for a couple of years whereas pure breed may lay their first year and then ease up on their second winter. This way they will keep laying to an older age whereas birds like the warren, goldlines, amberlinks etc which have been bred as egg laying machines will use up their supply of eggs quicker and often do not lay after they reach 3 (or at least lay very infrequently after this age).

[mr.mellow]

4 eggs most days from my 4 ladies.  

[Pol]

My 2 Friesian are laying just about every day. The Barnevelder have not started laying yet from me getting them in Nov and my Orpington have not layed from the end of October but the four off them are going redder by the day so should not be much longer.