Can you feed a horse eggs? Is there any benefit?

I hate to tell you this fatpiggy, but my chooks happily sift through horse poo, as well as catching and eating mice and frogs. As to when yours will stop laying - what's the light situation like? They'll stop over the shortest days but if you've got artificial lighting on they may well continue laying right through although they are unlikely to keep up an egg a day each. My two Pekins are still going strong, someone needs to tell the Hamburghs what they are supposed to be here for (and it's not just because they are gorgeous to look at!).
 
jemima*askin said:
I hate to tell you this fatpiggy, but my chooks happily sift through horse poo, as well as catching and eating mice and frogs. As to when yours will stop laying - what's the light situation like? They'll stop over the shortest days but if you've got artificial lighting on they may well continue laying right through although they are unlikely to keep up an egg a day each. My two Pekins are still going strong, someone needs to tell the Hamburghs what they are supposed to be here for (and it's not just because they are gorgeous to look at!).
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They will be in competition with the cat for frogs (at least she doesn't eat them I suppose, but lets them loose in the front room). Chooks are just in the garden in their pen. Its dark when I get up to feed them and dark when I get home in the evenings and up here in North Cheshire, daylight hours are shorter than down south. This morning, bless them, there were already 3 nice warm eggs at 7am. Other times, one is still thinking about it at lunchtime. I honestly thought they'd slow down and stop after the clocks changed, but apart from someone very occasionally missing a day, they are all in full production. Perhaps I should stop squeezing them? :)
 
fatpiggy said:
My hybrid chooks are still putting out an egg each ever day, much to my amazement - I would have though they would have stopped by now. They were POL in May, so does anyone know when they might shut up shop?
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My Rhode Island Reds had only about 6 weeks off over the middle of winter and then back into full production again. They were ex production hens, not battery but professional layers, I've had them a year and this year their eggs must be at least a size 8.

I have very few slugs or snails now
 
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