Do you find your chickens lay less when it's rainy?

Melontine

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May 26, 2019
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Steadily our chickens are getting back to laying at a good constant rate, finally, winter is coming to an end and it's time for spring.
Sunday our hens laid six eggs, Monday they laid eight.
Tuesday was rainy and when we went and collected the eggs, we found three.
Yesterday was so nice out, the weather was almost to the point you didn't need a coat to go outside, the sun was shining, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We collected ten eggs that day, each hen having laid one.
Today was more gloomy again, a bit colder but not too bad, and it was wet and muddy, with light showers throughout the dark. We only found four eggs in the nesting box today.
 
The hens I have now are more mature than any I have ever had and yes they lay a little less when it is rainy. I don't know if the lack of light associated with cloud cover is affecting them or what...
 
Yes. Ours lay less when it has been rainy or very windy. Their coop is behind the barn, so they are generally wind protected, but sometimes the wind comes from a different direction. Their run is 60% covered, including a very protected area under the coop which backs up to the barn wall.

last winter/early spring it was so very overcast for days on end, along with a lot of rain, and even the pullets stopped laying for a period of time.
 
Not sure I see that here.
I know the eggs have more dirty foot prints on the when it's wet out. :gig

Not surprised that lots of cloud cover(reducing the light that stimulates hormone cascade) and weather too rotten to be active could slow the egg machine down.
 

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