- Apr 14, 2009
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My hens usually lay eggs anywhere from 10am to 3 or 4pm. Most of them just after 12 Noon. This is fine with me.
But I run a Farm Day Camp in the summer for kids and they love collecting eggs -it's a morning program and we usually go out to collect between 9:30 and 11pm and there usually aren't many eggs at that time..... is there any way I change my hens cycle adding a light in the barn in early morning, etc..? so they will lay early in the morning, prefereably all be done laying by about 10am...?
(I don't like leaving the eggs in the nests overnight for the next day because it seems when I don't collect the eggs that is when I run into problems with egg eaters)
But I run a Farm Day Camp in the summer for kids and they love collecting eggs -it's a morning program and we usually go out to collect between 9:30 and 11pm and there usually aren't many eggs at that time..... is there any way I change my hens cycle adding a light in the barn in early morning, etc..? so they will lay early in the morning, prefereably all be done laying by about 10am...?
(I don't like leaving the eggs in the nests overnight for the next day because it seems when I don't collect the eggs that is when I run into problems with egg eaters)