Hello,
the subject of eggs in winter raises some questions for me. last year I got eggs through the winter...we have some serious cold around here...temps to -20F for weeks at a time. This year, I got no eggs for most of the winter. Then I read an article in the BACKWOODS HOME magazine from a gal who suggested giving the girls some prepared soybeans. She described the preparation as either dry roasting them or soaking them over night and boiling them to inactivate the trypsin enzyme in the soybean that damages a chickens stomach. By golly, I started getting eggs the second day and now production has returned to 3 a day from 3 hens (Barred Plymouth Rocks).
Can anyone comment on the effect of the protein versus the increasing amount of daylight as the season begins to change (despite the blizzard we had out here yesterday)
Does the longer day have any effect or is it both longer day, more protein or a combination of the two?