chickenlady2010
Chirping
- Apr 21, 2017
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Ok, so we have 20 chickens, and three of these are roosters (yes, one of these roosters is scheduled to be eaten, but that's for another thread). 4 hens are white leghorns and the other hens are buff orpingtons. The buff's were hatched April 2nd. I am unsure of what day the leghorns were hatched, but they're all close in age.
The hens have been laying for a month or so. All we are getting is brown eggs of various shades. I've only seen buffs laying, so I'm pretty sure the leghorns aren't laying yet. Also, we just started getting 4 eggs a day a week ago. However, yesterday we only got two eggs. Over the weekend we were busy and kept forgetting to collect the eggs when we went out to feed them, so on the third day when we went to collect all of the eggs, there were only 7 eggs. Shouldn't we be getting eggs from just about all of the hens every day by now? My husband was reading that they need 16 hours of light for laying, so he thought maybe putting a specific light with a low wattage would help if we put it on a timer for a couple hours early in the morning. At the same time I think about people raising chickens 200 years ago, they didn't have electricity in their chicken coops, etc, and obviously their chickens lived and laid eggs just fine. Penny for your thoughts?
The hens have been laying for a month or so. All we are getting is brown eggs of various shades. I've only seen buffs laying, so I'm pretty sure the leghorns aren't laying yet. Also, we just started getting 4 eggs a day a week ago. However, yesterday we only got two eggs. Over the weekend we were busy and kept forgetting to collect the eggs when we went out to feed them, so on the third day when we went to collect all of the eggs, there were only 7 eggs. Shouldn't we be getting eggs from just about all of the hens every day by now? My husband was reading that they need 16 hours of light for laying, so he thought maybe putting a specific light with a low wattage would help if we put it on a timer for a couple hours early in the morning. At the same time I think about people raising chickens 200 years ago, they didn't have electricity in their chicken coops, etc, and obviously their chickens lived and laid eggs just fine. Penny for your thoughts?