http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/ TheCityChicken Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:11:23 GMT Luis Salazar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2480 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2480 Howzabout a little patience?  Your hen hasn't begun laying yet; artificial light may not help her lay sooner.  Light helps extend the laying through the time Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:57:27 GMT amr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2479 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2479 Hello Kelly, Thank you very much for your helpful reply. I will try the light thing. Is any light okay like flourscent or does it need to be a special kind? Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:05:08 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2478 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2478 First...At 25 weeks, I don't think they'll molt. My experience is that they usually have to get at least one year, plus, before they start molting. I think Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:19:41 GMT amr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2477 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2477 Hi. I'm Angel and our family has six White Leghorn hens. They approx. 25 weeks of age and have not started laying yet. At least I don't think so. I am Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:34:15 GMT beefnboots http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2476 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2476 Heh... You'd better watch out, Ruby. You'll end up running Ruby's Rest Retirement Home for Hens. I'd love the idea of taking my hens to live out their days Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:35:28 GMT rjlettuces http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2475 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2475 Please if you really do not want them I will take them. I love hens and do not care if they lay or not. We live in the country and have a small (20) group of Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:43:47 GMT Julie McGregor http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2474 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2474 Hey Jessi,   I am curious where you live. I am outside Sacramento and belong to a 4-H poultry project and someone may take them. But certainly you wouldn't Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:41 GMT ladylilei http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2473 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2473 After they finish molting, their production might go up a smidge... but will likely remain low until natural light starts to increase in the spring. Adding a Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:41:18 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2472 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2472 - Gift to the local homeless men's soup kitchen (Lighthouse Mission, etc.). Kelly, inner SE PDX Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:39:42 GMT Anne Barfield http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2471 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2471 About #3.... We all have this problem sooner or later. Here are a few suggestions, based on what we have done. a. Offer two or more to a friend who thinks Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:54:57 GMT Renee Wrede http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2470 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2470 1. Well I am certainly not one that can give you the definitive answer but I do know hens decrease laying as they age. Dual purpose heritage breeds typically Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:32:15 GMT jessi_dey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2469 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2469 I posted this question on the pdx backyard chickens group and didn't get any responses, so I am hoping maybe it got lost in the shuffle and someone in this Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:07:51 GMT Joy Rose http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2468 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2468 Lol, Kelly! My Rhode Islander died the first few days of having her, but not before she laid us a couple of eggs. . .sweet thing. Have a California Grey and Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:44:23 GMT Bettyjo Martin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2467 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2467 hi kelly, i know what you mean, iam also a chicken addict!!! i think i always will be. it sounds like you have a very nice collection of chickens. i hope to be Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:56:46 GMT beefnboots http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2466 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2466 Hi...I'm Kelly, and I'm a chicken addict. I got hooked when I started using chickens to control garden insect pests. Now, I have six winged garden pests. All