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Read that hens lay 300 eggs a year, mine laid 214 and I finally know why
I counted every egg from my 6 Rhode Island Reds since January 1st and got 214 total, and when I looked up the breed standard in the American Poultry Association book it says 300 a year, so I called the hatchery in Missouri where I got them and the guy admitted their birds come from a line bred for feed conversion, not laying, which means I basically bought 6 tiny lawn ornaments with a marketing problem, so what hatchery actually sells birds that hit those numbers?
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shanegibson20d ago
Six lawn ornaments is a lot of chicken feed for a hatchery line bred to eat, not lay.
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