>>2915648
>From what I have read it might not always be the case.
it isnt. if they are overly stressed they will stop laying. if they are molting they might stop laying. if their food is lacking in nutrients they might stop laying. sometimes they just stop laying for a couple weeks just to rest.

cant really predict how many you will get. if you try to compensate for weak laying numbers by getting more hens you will wind up with more eggs than you know what to do with and it will be a huge waste of food both in feeding them and in the extra eggs that you pretty much have no option but to throw into the woods.

imo 6 hens is a good number to go with. sometimes you'll have enough eggs, sometimes you wont, but either way they wont eat more than youd want to feed them (they eat up to 1.5 lbs of food per day)

source: I once had 72 of the shits with the plan being that id be able to feed my whole family. cancelled that idea once I saw how unrealistic it is to look at chickens for sustenance.

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