Here are some of our favorites: Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock, Ameraucana and Red Sex Link. These have proven to be excellent layers except during molting season when chickens lay few ...

Chickens typically start laying at six to seven months old. How many eggs depends on the breed. A Longhorn may lay one a day. A Rhode Island Red may lay one every one or two days. Shorter daylight ...

As autumn set in last year, I thought Esmerelda, at age seven, had entered a well-merited retirement. For nearly six years ...

"The brown ones [Rhode Island Reds] you walk up and sit down and wait for a cuddle; they are ridiculously friendly," she says. At their peak laying capacity, Cathy's chickens lay about one egg ...