On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:26:37 -0600, Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Yea, but chickens are far removed from what exists in the wild.
>
> 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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