Cat don't taste bad either.
I prefer to let my chickens store the eggs and ration them out. Start chicks late spring and they usually lay all winter for me. easter eggers have been my most consistent for laying in the winter.
If you choose to run a light to extend daylight length to keep egg production during the short days of winter , use a timer and have it come on before dawn instead of lights out in the evening before they get on their roost.
Feeding hot pepper powder/ flakes has never made chickens lay more for me. They might drink more water. Feeding a higher protein layer feed will probably do more for them in the winter months.
If you choose to run a light to extend daylight length to keep egg production during the short days of winter , use a timer and have it come on before dawn instead of lights out in the evening before they get on their roost.
Feeding hot pepper powder/ flakes has never made chickens lay more for me. They might drink more water. Feeding a higher protein layer feed will probably do more for them in the winter months.
What’s this egg shortage you speak of? I’m buying the the family size eggs on of these babies will feed 4 or 5. 
Free Egg cartons, last call before the wife makes me toss them.
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We live in town. We bought a metal coop from Tractor Supply and put it on the side of our house (inside our privacy fence), then built a PVC enclosure with garden netting for a roof to keep hawks out. We have a 10-15’ pvc run coming off of that, but they’ve already decimated the grass in the run. Lately I’ve been letting them just free range our backyard.
Use them for packaging stuff for shipment.
