How long for lights to regulate laying?

KYBOY

Crowing
16 Years
Mar 8, 2008
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I let my hens take a break for most of this winter..Well I put a light in both houses about 9 days ago..Production has raised a noticeable ammount but isnt anywhere near normal production. In fact its about half. Most of last summer and fall I got 15-18 eggs a day from those same 19 hens..They are getting around 14 hours of light a day..Feeding the same feed..
Now I dont expect the lights to regulate the laying in 9 days but about how long do you think it will take??
 
I added 4 hours extra of light for about a week and finally got one of the girls to lay. Since I don't have electric out to the duck pen, I just use the light from hubby's Ryobi tool set...
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I recharge the battery during the day and place the light in their hutch at night. It fades out after about 4 hours.
 
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Mine took about two weeks to start laying again. They've been laying for a month or more now and I'm starting to improve by the day now. A lot of it is the season, but just keep it up and they will do better. Half eggs is better than NO eggs.
 
The quoted average needed for most hens is 14hrs. Most of mine are pretty happy with 12 and started laying within a week with nearly all laying after 2 weeks.
 
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