It's true.
Now is the time to get the next generation started for next year.
Most hens will lay in the spring, even several year old ones will lay a few. First year pullets may lay all year, but the second year they probably will take the winter off, at least the darkest 2 or 3 months. Every year they will lay fewer and fewer.
They will probably stop laying for a short time during the hottest part of the summer also.
Diane S.
----- Original Message -----From: Ray Nancy BlanchongSent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 6:15 PMSubject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Chicken Lights/Noemi
Noemi~I was thinking the exact same thing: this was our first year of having chickens and we had the worse winter in recent history and my Ladies laid quite well all winter long!!Then Hubby was reading an article that said first year hens (pullets) will do that, but now next winter those same hens will not lay nearly as well.Does anyone have any more info/experience on this? Funny how I've been reading everything I can get my hands on and I had never heard this before.I am getting a solid egg customer base and I'm wondering if this is something I need to keeping in mind when planning my flock population.Nancy Blanchong
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