Once your chickens start laying eggs (and this should be happening about now if you got spring chickens), here are the things you want to think about.

Several factors can impact that precious egg supply: When chickens molt — a sometimes weeks- or months-long process in which they shed old feathers and grow new ones — they stop laying eggs.

Just when you think your chickens are done being freeloaders, there are a bunch of food changes and supplements to consider.