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hippiechickX4 said:
So I have some free loaders. Granted we don't really need the eggs, but my girls are patiently awaiting blue eggs for my Easter eggers. They are 30 weeks old and I have other breeds that are also 30-32 weeks old and they aren't laying either. Is this common for them to be that old and not laying yet?
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Do you have supplemental lighting to give them at least 14 hours of light a day? I give mine a break this time of year and don't turn on lights until December, so egg production is way, way down. Almost none of my spring hatched pullets are laying yet, and as I alluded to, I'm fine with that, but I understand that others want eggs sooner. I have several pens of 20 - 30 pullets that are point of lay, and I get about an egg a day (from all of them combined).

Get lights on them early in the morning if you want them to lay all year. By January, my lights are coming on at 3 AM and off at 8AM.
 
since we got rid of Zippy, the girls are getting feathers on their backs again. Dupli must not be as rapey. It seems that way from observation, anyway. Still no eggs. I have been putting the solar landscape lights in a bracket so they shine in the coop window to give them a little extra light. So far it is not working. Between the daylight and the molt, I don't expect it to until maybe a month or so. And Rory and Jaebels won't be ready for a while, since they only hatched on July 6.
 
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Do you have supplemental lighting to give them at least 14 hours of light a day? I give mine a break this time of year and don't turn on lights until December, so egg production is way, way down. Almost none of my spring hatched pullets are laying yet, and as I alluded to, I'm fine with that, but I understand that others want eggs sooner. I have several pens of 20 - 30 pullets that are point of lay, and I get about an egg a day (from all of them combined).

Get lights on them early in the morning if you want them to lay all year. By January, my lights are coming on at 3 AM and off at 8AM.
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Does it matter if lights are on in the morning or evening?
I just assumed that we would be extending our day into the evening.
Do your roosters crow at 3am when your lights come on then?
 
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The point of light in the morning, is that suddenly going from bright light to the pitch black at night is confusing, and they may not know to actually go to bed.
 
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