Well, my girls must be the same age as yours, because they won't be laying until Feb/March, so it's a moot point with me. However, I do give extra light right now, because, as another poster replied, it gets dark so early now that I wouldn't have any visiting time with my birds otherwise. I like to sit in their coop with them for socialization (just as on weekends, I sit with them in their run). I turn their light off around 7 PM each evening now. I'm not sure what I'll do next fall... Egg production will not be the issue for me even then (when they are laying), as we only go through, tops, 2 dozen eggs a month anyway. But I like having time with my girls, and can't do that when it's getting dark already by the time I get home...
