Can you force your chickens to start laying eggs? I get asked all the time how to get a chicken to start laying and the short answer is: You can't! There are a whole lot of myths around egg laying though. Old wives tales abound, from feeding hot peppers to using fake eggs and unfortunately none of them work.
However, some of these methods seem to work some of the time. That is where it gets tricky!
Most of the time when someone is getting impatient for their hens to start laying it's either because:
A) The winter laying break has dragged on long enough already!
or
B) These chickens have to be old enough to lay by now! Right?
In either of these cases, using the old wives methods of prompting your chickens to start laying will generally coincide with the chickens naturally starting to lay anyway. So it only seems like it works. Here are the ones I've heard recently...
Can you force hens to start laying?was originally posted by Favorite Chicken Blogs
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