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Same here. I thought of starting a new thread but will just ask here.
What do you chicken experts think is the reason the last 4 days my chickens are laying less eggs and much later in the day? We are in a warming trend the last week.
Yesterday 5 of 7
Today 4 of 7
About like this the last four days. My chickens are all well under a yr old and until 4-5 days ago have been laying 6-7 eggs every day for the last couple of months.
Why the change? is it the weather? The moon? Etc...?
...JP
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Chickens lay on a cycle, and it isn't a 24 hour cycle, I've heard differing hours, but 28 hours seems to be the consensus. So, day by day, they get later and later and then run into nighttime - I think the cycle reset with nighttime. Some mornings when I go in there after a 'slow' day I'll find all kinds of eggs early on, that's the day after 'reset'.
12/14 yesterday, that's a big day for me now!! This is their second laying year, and those eggs are huge now!