A Red Sex-link, or Cinnamon Queen, chicken will probably lay one egg a day. They are rated as excellent layers of medium size brown eggs. When listed as "excellent layers" it generally means that you can pretty well count on an egg a day.

I think a better answer might be that they don't have to breed to lay eggs. I had chickens for years without a rooster and the eggs were steady. Now I have a rooster and I am not so sure they are laying more or less eggs. Having a rooster will protect the hens but … Read more

I have been feeding mine lettuce for years without a "lay off". I know of nothing in lettuce that is bad for them at all.  Free range chickens eat a lot of grasses and greens so the fact they are "raw things" is of little concern.  I also feed mine bread and grain (scratch consists of raw … Read more