Re: What's driving the "egg" shortages/increases?

 

This is the end of the year for the chickens, soon prices should come down
because all the hens are laying for spring.

On the average a good laying flock of fifteen hens will produce twelve eggs per
day.  Important words 'on the average'.  Once spring begins, hens start laying
heavy.  But as winter is ending, the hens stop laying.  There will probably be
more small eggs for sale because of the number of young hens laying for the
first time.

  Vandy Terre wrote:

Wow, I never knew there was a seasonal cycle to how hens lay eggs (and how
many of them).

Now I guess the next question is:  is there any economical way to put the
hens in an entirely climate-controlled environment (with control of the
length of the days as well, and any other cues that chickens use to sense
what time of year it is) so that their perception is changed and they think
it's spring when it's actually the end of winter?  Because if there is,
then you'd have hens at peak production right when supply is short and
prices are high.  :-)

   - Logan