RE: My Feathered Girls Have Given Me My First Dozen Eggs!

Oh yes, it's truly magical! Yeah, you're really starting to produce your own food, it's just great!

I really need to convince my girlfriend to buy some chickens. How long can a hen produce eggs in her lifetime?

My aunt got some hens a few years ago that were going to the abattoir. She was only able to save 2 of the 15,000 hens. But others were able to save some too.

That said, these hens had been very poorly fed for the first 30 days of their lives, to make them grow quickly before being slaughtered. As a result, when my aunt got them back, they didn't produce many eggs. Then, after 18 months, they stopped breeding altogether.