Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

[bantambabe1]

Mine are doing the same, first year raising a backyard flock. 4 of my 6 had started laying, but a few weeks ago, all but my EE stopped. Makes me wonder if we have an impending bad Winter coming and they can sense it before we can and are stocking up on energy by not laying????

- Dana

 

[Froggy with chickens now!]

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RED LIGHT DISTRICT!LOL
No seriously what are the benifits of red lights over white?

My sister and I can not find red light bulbs anywhere. Got any suggestions?

 

[Churkenduse]

Find them (red lights) on them web?
The red lights help with pecking, they start to peck if they see blood on their "coop mates" they cannot see the blood in red lights so they settle down to sleep without fighting.
Some people do not believe in light sot get a higher yeild, reason being that it interferes with the natural course of things. I is also sad to make them a little "nervous" if the light are left on too soon. I started to use lights and I stopped, something was not right with my girls ao I let nature takh its course and all is well so I do not get eggs for awhile.

 

[ElioraImmanuel]

We have 46 hens and are getting about 27 eggs/day. That's 60%, but I'd so love to be up to 70%!

 

[kcfuerst]

Walmart has red lamps.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

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Sympathy protest, maybe, to support their distant cousins?

 

[602800001691]

I don't know, my girls are laying. Three RIR's, I get 2-3 eggs every day. I don't have lights or heat in their coop, but they are outside all day. They eat layer feed and homemade waffles. On the day they get waffles, there are usually 3 eggs instead of 2. Go figure?!

 

[Jajika]

What's the issue with Red lamps over white?

I'm concerned about using lights at night, even though it warms up the coop. Will the continued light cause problems for them? Can they still sleep with the light on?

 

[SunnyDawn]

Jajika I answered this question when you asked on the Bay Area thread. The only benefit of red over white is covered by Churkenduse above. Good luck!

To answer the original question, no I have not noticed a drop in laying for November. I actually saw a huge increase! My gals were molting from Sept. to Oct. and the pullets really took their time to finally get into the swing of things. I'm getting quite a decent number of eggs now (for this time of year anyway).

 

[cybercat]

Light in the coop will not be nessary for chickens that were hatched this year. They should lay fine thru winter. Those that were hatched last year and beyond are more intune the natures cycles so are not laying right now. But even though that is the case many are still way off in laying and should have started up again.

Right now I have notice 3 more of mine getting redder in face and combs.