How To Look After Egg Laying Hens. Line the boxes with straw or sawdust bedding and change it weekly or earlier if it gets dirty. Chicken Egg Production Cycle.
When she resumes delivering eggs two to three months later you get fewer eggs. Line the boxes with straw or sawdust bedding and change it weekly or earlier if it gets dirty. While table scraps can supplement the diet of your hens you need to be careful about what youre feeding them.
Supplement with snacks high in protein like mealworms sunflower seeds oats and provide a free-feed source of calcium like oyster shells or crushed eggshells.
If youre hoping for eggs provide nesting boxes. It is thus a usual routine practice to replace the layers at the period of 18 months. Keep medicated chick feed away from other animals especially waterfowl. After that production slows a bit until a hen molts when laying stops.