With the molting and combining all the youngsters into the coop, as well as I will be away in late October and early November, I have brought back the large feeder to be in the coop. I still feed in the yard, but not as much. The feed I use is the feed for meat birds, it is cheaper than Flock Raiser a d has the same ingredients for less. Only getting two eggs somedays, and found that they are laying behind the nest boxes...sneaky girls. As soon as they stop molting, I will hook up the rope lights. As they need a certain number of hour of light to make eggs, I'll set up the timer and we'll start getting more eggs. While they molt I won't add the light, they need to put their energy into making feathers, then they can switch to egg production. I believe Marquisella said 13 was the minimum hours of light for good egg production.