Beginner Gardening: Egg Shells Question, 1 by SILLYLILY

SILLYLILY wrote:
When chickens set on a nest to hatch babies, they stop laying for the three week incubation period. They also don't lay while tending to their new born chicks. Thus a chicken farmer does not want his chickens to "set" and quit laying eggs....he loses his profit. If he wants new chicks, he buys them or incubates fertile eggs in an incubator. The new hatchery chicks get along just fine without a Mom. (Perhaps a little bit lonlier though). Our chickens are for fun and that's why we have bantams. Here is one of our "cool" ones....it's a Sultan bantam chicken.