LEARN THE SECRETS OF MAKING YOUR HENS LAY AGAIN 👇
An average healthy layer produces an egg almost every day (after 26 hours) or at least 4 times a week.
This starts Withini the first 20 weeks of age, on average and about 5% of your flock start laying eggs and can lay as much as 325 eggs per hen per year.
About 10% birds start laying at 21 weeks of age. When they reach 26-32 weeks of age, they produce highly although it may be different depending on their stain.
After laying a maximum number of eggs, they usually stop laying for few days. After this period, their egg production might reduce slowly. Egg laying rate, hen weight and size of eggs increase gradually.
Below are the
factors that can cause hens to abruptly stop laying
1. Feed quality à nd quantity, compromising with one of these affects production, we as farmers say,hens produce what they eat.
2. Age, before a hen starts laying, it's should at least be over 1.5kg of weight. Even if birds start laying before attaining this weight, in the near future they will stop laying. Follow the growth and weight charts to avoid such mistakes.
3. Broodiness, commercial layers were not genetically developed to sit on their eggs, but as nature controls, you will find some sitting on their eggs, these tend to stop laying.
4. Weather, if the temperatures are too hot with improper coop ventilation, expect a reduction in egg production or even cases of mortality. Connected to this, logic temperature changes stress hens.
5. Pests and parasites, these when not controlled bring stress in laying birds and they start focusing on how to eliminate them. Stressed birds can't lay as normal. Always deworm and spray Chicken houses
6. Molting, this should not scare you away since it's temporary. Birds shed off their former feathers to produce and bring out new ones. So this affects their egg production because the protein meant to produce eggs, part of it is used to produce new feathers.
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