For most of a hen’s life, she is laying both fertile and unfertile, eating eggs. Hens usually only lay one egg a day.
Hens like having a nice, tight nesting box to lay her eggs. Nesting boxes are made from wood and usually have hay at the bottom of them.
Hens like laying eggs in dark, warm places rather than light, cooler places. In the wild, they use a hollow on the ground and sometimes find corners of a farmyard.
The shell of eggs when first laid are usually moist but it air dries fairly quickly. When the days become longer, hens lay more eggs. As the days get shorter, the amount of eggs they lay gets lower and lower until winter when they don’t lay any eggs at all. Occasionally, they lay eggs all year round.
