re: Teach me about chickens - laying hens

Will take about 4-6 months from hatch to laying and you will probably get close to an egg a day per chicken on average for about 2 yrs then they will lay a bit slower maybe an egg every other day. I would get white leghorns if you just want eggs but they will lay the white super market style. My parents have buff arpingtons that are a meat/egg layer and give the brown eggs. Not all of them lay an egg a day but pretty close. Now for food they give them laying pellets and go through about 50 lbs a week with 40 chickens. But they do get 2-3 dozen eggs a day.