Choosing Chicken Breeds and Hatching Chicks

bought them once. These are American breeze chickens and they're good for eating. They're a dualpurpose birds. There's several different types of bird you can get. You can get a commercial egg layer and the cheapest ones I've ever seen to raise are the white leg breed. They'll lay just about 365 eggs a year. [screaming] Randy, they'll lay about 365 eggs a year. just about every day they're going to lay if you treat them right. Do the chickens lay in as much in the winter time as they do in the summer? The answer is no. How can I increase egg production? Chickens lay eggs based on light cycles. So, if you want your chickens to lay eggs, go ahead, Randy. Go ahead, bud. >> [laughter] >> If you want your chickens to lay eggs in the winter time, [screaming] [laughter] put a light in your chicken coupe and let that light burn till about 8:00 p.m. so that the chickens get a longer day and they'll start laying. If you want to really trick them up, put a light with a timer on it and have it come on in the middle of the night and then cut back off and come in the middle of night and cut back off. If you do that, you'll start to get double ykers and all kinds of fun stuff. And you will get double yolk eggs once in a while no matter what. So, anyhow, the goal with Randy here is to annoy me to death and to help these chickens to have fertile eggs. Is it gross to eat fertilized eggs? There is such a minute amount of the [screaming] things that Randy produces in order to fertilize those eggs. It's just one cell, one organism, one cell, one yolk, and one sperm cell is all it takes to fertilize an egg. And we'll show you guys hatching eggs out here very soon because I'm saving them back. We're getting into spring. We need to