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apparently keeping them in darkness for a couple of days will stop them laying, but I haven't tried it myself so can't vouch for it. The backyard chickens that live long lives are usually heritage breeds, the sort that farmers kept before modern industrial farming methods and breeds were...

I'm sure others will chip in here, with lots of varied advice, but I would just point out that she's a high production breed, and she has reached the age where commercial producers would cull her, precisely because they stop being profitable about this age. High egg production has a cost in...