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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:26:37 -0600, Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Robert Kesterson wrote:
> > but for chickens, they will lay year round,
> >as long as the days are long enough to give them plenty of daylight.
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> Yea, but chickens are far removed from what exists in the wild.
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> Don.
That may be true. But my comments about their laying habits stand, and
the fact that they came from a semi-tropical origin (the red jungle fowl
of India and China), it seemed relevant. There are other birds which lay
all year -- I'm not a bird expert so can't name them all. I believe
pigeons do, and there are undoubtedly others. (Note that chickens will
also stop laying when they are sitting on a nest or raising a brood of
chicks. I suspect other birds would behave similarly, so a wild bird
wouldn't be laying eggs all the time, even if that species did lay all
year.)
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Robert Kesterson
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