How much is your production down?

[SandRun]

I've been down for about a month. 12 hens and I'm luck if I get 4 a day. To be honest at least 5 of them are just wrapping up molting, and another 5 just started laying at the end of August. Put the light out this past Thursday no increase yet.

 

[Sjisty]

My production is down to next to nothing from my 20+ hens! They are almost all molting and unless they have found a secret "honey spot" in the back yard, I'm just getting 4-5 eggs a day. I have another dozen hens who are just coming up to laying age, so by the spring laying had better be increased, or else!

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

My 6 Black Aus 5.5 month olds have just come into their own, up from about 4 eggs a day a month ago to 5 or 6 eggs a day (unless there is a mammoth double yolker) this week.
I feel like they just started making it happen! I so hope they don't cut back over the winter. They do have artificial light, and live indoors, as their home is in a forest filled with unfriendlies to chooks.

Bright Blessings of Abundant Eggs!

 

[chickchickgirls]

17 hens went from about 12 eggs a day to 1!?!?!? Get busy you lazy biddies!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

No idea what's going on here - no slowdown noticeable here.

I've got 30 ladies of laying age and I get around 23 eggs a day, give or take a few layers.

I actually wouldn't mind if they slowed down a bit. I got 650 non-broken eggs in October... For my large family of one that's a bit much.

 

[BitsyB]

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Yes- I love love love collecting the eggs. This may sound silly to those who've had chickens their whole lives, but each time I reach for an egg from the nest, I pause to feel the smoothness of it, sometimes it's still warm- it's a small sacred moment of my day.

BTW, concering reduced egg production, I remember reading an article somewhere about how people in the old days had methods to store the extra eggs from when they were getting a lot in preparation for leaner times. (Maybe it was Mother Earth News?) Before electricity and lightbulbs, folks had to be very resourceful...

 

[pkw]

No I am definitely not seeing a decrease. In fact I am getting more eggs each day as yet another hen starts laying. I have night lights on in my chicken house every night though because my chickens will not go in their chicken house until I turn on their night lights. They are used to having a night light though since they were day old chicks.

 

[Sunshine Chick 1]

Out of 29 hens I am getting 4-10 a day when I was getting 22-24 a day. This has been going on for a month now. They are all molting.

 

[spish]

1 egg per day from 60 hens of laying age...i could cry ..................................a lot!

but over 3/4 are in full blown moult, the rest just seem to have taken badly to the shorter days.

still roll on spring when they should all be laying (my 20 poults should then join in too!)

 

[Chickycat]

I have eight hens that started laying about a month ago. We were getting 4 or 5 eggs a day, occasionally 3. So far it is still the same. I will not be using a light. I want my chickens to live as naturally as possible. Except for my Banties, which haven't started laying yet, not even sure if they are roos or hens yet, the chickens are free range. The Banties have a large enclosure, so pretty much free range. Just don't want my larger chickens attacking them, ans do far looks like I may have all Bantie Roos.