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I hear you Chickabator - my feed is over $20/50 lbs. They free range and get scraps and vegs, but it really adds up. HinkJC, I'm thinking disease/sickness because production is below 10%. Even in the hottest days of August, there were more eggs. A few chickens are wheezing, but so am I (lots...

Great Jacque - we run a fan most of the year and are in upstate NY, where it is invariably cooler than florida. There are many reasons chickens reduce laying other production other than heat, moulting, stress, aging, light changes - I am trying to figure out which disease symptoms I should be...

Thanks for the thoughts - certainly possible a few are laying elsewhere. I don't think heat stroke was a problem this summer - waterers are always full, plenty of shade, never went about low 90's. I'm more concerned about one of the many infectious diseases. ANy thoughts?

I have probably 100 hens, lots of food and water, about 8 roosters, about 45 nesting boxes and yes, some chickens are moulting, some are two or three years old BUT we've been getting about 20 eggs a day when it was hot. And NOW the average is about 12. I can't afford to have this many hens not...