can you eat chickens (hen) after the 8 year egg laying period and do they sleep at night on a perch or floor?

Answer 1

I would query the 8 year laying period. Most hybrids are culled after only one year and if bought after this, will continure to lay reliably for only another 3 years before succumbing to tumours. Some of my purebred birds are still laying at 12 years old.
Large heavy breeds like my own cochins are safer sleeping on the floor to avoid foot injury from jumping off a perch. At most the perch should only be 8 inches off the ground. Bantams and light breeds can perch safety but make sure you do not put a round perch in. Threy need a square or oblong one to avoid foot strain and bumblefoot. To answer the other part of your questions, yes you can eat an old hen. Years ago they were sold as boiling fowl. Because they will be tough, you need to cook them long and slow. Ideal for making broth and soup though.
Good for you eating your old birds. Hopefully if you allow eggs to hatch you will also eat the young cockerels. To people like Ted, I suggest you stop eating poultry and poultry products at all. To refuse to eat well reared happy birds of your own, then go and buy a frozen 6 week old intensively reared, cruelly treated and slaughtered supermarket bird is wicked. You will be actively supporting the cruelty which goes on in factory farms. Go and click on the links on my webpage to find out about how factory farmed birds and eggs are produced.

Answer 2

I suppose you could eat an 8-year old laying hen if you like tough old birds.

My chickens slept where they pleased. For safety reasons, they preferred a high perch but some slept in nesting boxes and others slept on the ground.

Answer 3

Most of my chickens prefer to sleep on the floor in the wood shavings for bedding. And I never keep them 8 years.
Mostly about 3 years and I slaughter them off. they are called stewing hens at that point. They are great for chicken soup and stuff like that but not for frying as they are tough.

Answer 4

You can eat them but I would suggest boiling them well because they will be pretty tough at that age. Hens usually perch but some sleep in boxes too.

Answer 5

I have never known chickens have such long egg laying careers.
I suspect at that age, they have difficulty getting up to a perch.
You need a Jewish mother to make those old hens into chicken soup, try these recipes:
http://www.jewish-food.org/recipes/chsindex.htm

Answer 6

are you seriously going to eat your chicken after it lays eggs for you for eight years? I had chickens as pets as a child, and bantams and I could never eat them....
Most chickens sleep on a perch at night if one is available.

Please don't eat them.

Answer 7

You can eat them but they will be TOUGH!!!

They prefer to perch as this is their natural way in the forest where they came from

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Answer 9

old hens make the best chicken soup - and practically nothing else eatable

Answer 10

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I prefer to sleep on a perch. It makes me feel safer from attack.