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Latest report: Well I'm making some progress here. One day I got SIX eggs before 11am and every one in the nesting boxes. The next day though I had two dropped on the floor and three laid outside in the straw shed again. But we seem to be on the right track. I really don't like keeping them shut...

Quote: LMAO! That's just too funny! Hopefully that's something that mine will learn then. And I'm lifting their eggs from the floor and putting them in the nest boxes for a day or so to see if that'll give them the right idea. It's down near freezing here just now so I can leave the eggs in...

Oh dear. So if I want to let them free range, I'm probably going to lose a lot of eggs then... My neighbour free ranges her four hens who lay two eggs in the morning and two in the afternoon, but they always go back to their coop and into their nesting box to lay them. So considerate of them. My...

Surely within time they'll react to the artificial light though? Everything I've read seems to say that if you have a light coming on early, they'll end up laying earlier than if they didn't have that light on. I was just wondering how long it might take... Two weeks, a month, two months, a...

Can anyone tell me how long should it take to 're-set' hens' internal egg timers? When I first got my flock at Xmas, I was keeping them in a stable with natural light but no artificial light. They were let out to free range every day, and they laid eggs anywhere and everywhere but never in...