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9 Tips to Help Your Chickens Lay More Eggs

How do you get the most eggs from your chickens? It may sound like a difficult question but if you have kept chickens before you already know the answer – you treat her like a queen! To get your chickens to lay lots of eggs, there are several things you need to do. Some of these things will be obvious to you, others perhaps a little more obscure, but they are all important to your flock. Below we share with you 9 natural ways to make chickens lay more eggs… 1. Access to clean water: They need clean, fresh water every day to support their bodily needs. I know, you see them drinking from muddy puddles and ditches but they really should have clean water. That murky water you see them drinking may contain parasites and bacteria that can make them sick. If hens become dehydrated they will not lay eggs and it will take them a few days to start laying again. 2. Reducing stress Chickens can get stressed by small and inconsequential things such as a change of feed, loud noises