Your chicken celebrates life cycles, too Up until 20 weeks, chicks are considered to be in the grower/starter stage. Once they start laying, or at 20 weeks (this usually coincides) they graduate ...

Fewer than 150 commercial egg farms with flocks of at least 75,000 now house over 95% of egg-laying hens, the United Egg Producers trade group estimates.

While some hens lay an egg a day, not all do. Several factors can impact that precious egg supply: When chickens molt — a sometimes weeks- or months-long process in which they shed old feathers ...

They eat what they need. If the chickens are eating that much crushed oyster, they need the calcium (remember, eggs are 96% calcium). The food-shaming in my coop ceased immediately (I swear).