Not all going in coop before dusk and no eggs

[big medicine]

Did adding the light and them staying out start about the same time ?

Have never raised Favoralles, but with their size and feather, I'm betting your are mostly just running up your electric bill with the light.

In uneven aged flocks I've seen older dominant birds run lower ranked birds out of the coop untill the alphas have gone to roost.

 

[NovaAman]

First... Turn off the light. They do not need heat. second, fake eggs or store bought eggs in the nests. At 6 months I am not surprised they are not laying. Faverolles can take longer. My girls we born in January, didn't lay until late August

 

[big medicine]

The days getting shorter are also not working in you favor.

 

[mstricer]

First... Turn off the light. They do not need heat. second, fake eggs or store bought eggs in the nests. At 6 months I am not surprised they are not laying. Faverolles can take longer. My girls we born in January, didn't lay until late August

Man I thought no one was going to say that. I too had Faverolles that took that long also. Why do you have heat on them?

 

[Lescas5795]

Gail Damerow says don't start worrying until after 30 weeks.

 

[Lescas5795]

Sorry if someone said this already, but heat might be why they are not going back in there at dusk. Most chickens like cold weather and hate the heat of summer.