Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

[big greg barker]

Glad to see we are not alone. 32 hens and 10 eggs a day. We had hawk predation, which freaked them out, chickens molting, and a lot of fluctuating weather patterns. rain, cold, heat high winds, lightning, and snow flurries all in one week. In the early fall we were getting 20 -26 every day. The freezer is full of cow and turkey, so we are stuck feeding them for a bit............

 

[dirtsaver]

Uh....three to five eggs a day from fourteen hens.......... I blame it on the shorter days with no artificial light. Now that the girls have had a few weeks break I'm adding lights,but only for a couple hours extra in the morning. We don't really need the extra eggs and I don't want to mess with nature too much!

Larry

 

[Froggy with chickens now!]

I only have one laying hen, she stopped laying for a couple of weeks or so during molting. But, we put in a light bulb making them have 14 hours daylight and she started laying again. She has always only layed an egg every other day, every now and then giving an egg 2 days in a row. Now she will lay every day for a few days and then skip every other day. As long as she is still laying, I am ok with it. I have a newbie about 3 mths old. She should start laying around 6 mths I hope. The light seems to help.

 

[chookies]

glad it's not just here as well!

i'd chalked it up to my two banties' and rooster's witnessing my sex-link being killed by a neighbor's dog. call me crazy, but they seemed a little skittish and down in the dumps after that. we had a really cool summer: normally i'd find the banties had scads of eggs laid in all sorts of places.

i once found about 12 eggs--while we had REALLY hot weather--that a miss banty had hidden in patch of grass. i thought sure they were spoiled. they weren't.

 

[NewTurkeyMom]

I have 6 hens (chicks this past Spring) and for November 1 - 25, I have gotten 91 eggs, which averages to 3.6 eggs per day. The most I get now is 5 eggs/day but i just discovered I have a rogue layer who likes to lay in the large yard behind a shed instead of using a nesting box so I don't know if I have been missing eggs. I'm sure the dogs and wild critters have been enjoying her little gifts but now I know to look for her eggs there. My girls seem to be quite opinionated - they laid 5 eggs on Veterans' Day and 0 eggs on election day. This is the only time I have gotten no eggs from them. Bless their pointed little combs and God Bless Our Troops. We live 35 miles South of Denver and this November has been warm and dry.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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"Butts snaped shut" way too funny.Never heard that one!

 

[chickchick2010]

My bantams are laying well but the big hens have almost stopped completely. I have around 20 hens and only getting 1 egg a day.

 

[stewames]

We have the same problem. 10 chickens 4- 5 eggs/day. I told the girls they might become Sunday dinner and they squeezed out one more the other day!
My husband looked up the SUN ASPECT online and found that it is the lowest that it can be in a 19 year cycle. The sun is rising and setting at 18 to 20 degrees over the horizon here on PA. That means that the actual rays from the sun hitting the earth are MUCH weaker than usual. So, even though the sun shines every day on the earth, does not mean it shines the same!!! The good news is that it will slowly begin going back to stronger rays as we return to a better cycle, and the chickies will lay better over the next few years .

Very technical stuff on Lunar and Solar tracks, but interesting anyway. Look up :

http://www.docweather.com/4/show/211/

 

[Churkenduse]

Yes it is very slow this year, they stopped in late Oct. I bought eggs and suddenly they started then they stopped for a week I had some for a few days, and now no eggs again it is very frustrating, I have not bought eggs in a few years. I do not like those white yolk eggs you buy at the store.