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Denninmi

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1. As I said on the other thread, mine never quit entirely.
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 07:32 PM
Dec 2011

From 9 hens, I'm getting on average about 4 eggs a day now. They didn't quit in the heat of summer, and haven't stopped with the short days, so I'm pretty confident they'll keep going until the then-2-year olds will go into a full moult towards the end of July next summer.

I have other birds, too - coturnix quail, ducks, and turkeys which all laid in the spring and summer all quit laying - ducks quit first, in late July, then the quail quit around late August. I was still getting a few turkey eggs until about Oct. 1st.

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