Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Scrambles55]

Probably.

 

[gilcamp4]

Probably.

if you keep a light on 20 hrs they will lay at 12 wks, but i have never seen to many doing this unless you are a factory who gets eggs for stores, this is how they do it no out side in small coop no love in it, i would never do that to my chickens and i have 58 i do have a light on in coop in winter till 8pm and back on at 7am, i love my chickens and if i get eggs fine have gotten 14 today but in may i got 21, i have 3 groups the older ones are 1 1/2 years then 9mths and 3mths. if you save the eggs shells for a week and then put the eggs shells in a blender and then put them in the feeder it helps with hardening the eggs, i also just break them real good no big eggs shells, don't want them to think they should eat the eggs, we do this once a week and works great plus cheaper then clam shells. make sure shells are dry

 

[Scrambles55]

are you sure one of your girls didn't lay two or you missed one from yesterday.

I don't mean to sound rude, but 12 weeks is simply impossible for a chicken to lay unless they've come up with a new GMO bird that matures so fast that I haven't heard about?

I do not think that a pullet laid an egg. Just curious about who did.

Penny laid an egg yesterday. This morning I found a brown egg on the bottom of the coop. Not from Smoke... possibly from Penny, but then Penny laid an egg this morning. I think that the heat is messing with the egg laying process. I have had 3 thin shelled eggs in 4 days.

 

[subhanalah]

[COLOR=800080]I do not think that a pullet laid an egg. Just curious about who did.[/COLOR] [COLOR=800080]Penny laid an egg yesterday. This morning I found a brown egg on the bottom of the coop. Not from Smoke... possibly from Penny, but then Penny laid an egg this morning. I think that the heat is messing with the egg laying process. I have had 3 thin shelled eggs in 4 days.[/COLOR]

I had a pullet lay twice in one day, the second one seemed to have just ejected before the shell process was finished. I had just wormed her that day, so think that has a lot to do with it.

 

[subhanalah]

As for lighting, I don't think I'll be doing it for my birds. Eggs stay good for up to 4 months in the refrigerator, so I'm hoping I can get enough to last us through winter should my "winter layers" not live up to their reputation, lol.

 

[Scrambles55]

if you keep a light on 20 hrs they will lay at 12 wks, but i have never seen to many doing this unless you are a factory who gets eggs for stores, this is how they do it no out side in small coop no love in it, i would never do that to my chickens and i have 58 i do have a light on in coop in winter till 8pm and back on at 7am, i love my chickens and if i get eggs fine have gotten 14 today but in may i got 21, i have 3 groups the older ones are 1 1/2 years then 9mths and 3mths. if you save the eggs shells for a week and then put the eggs shells in a blender and then put them in the feeder it helps with hardening the eggs, i also just break them real good no big eggs shells, don't want them to think they should eat the eggs, we do this once a week and works great plus cheaper then clam shells. make sure shells are dry

There is no light in the coop. It gets dark here at 9pm right now and dawn is at 4am. The girls free range all day long. They have plenty of oyster shells. I do think that the heat is doing it. Penny usually lays daily and I know who lays which egg. She took a break for a few days and now the egg farts are coming. The day I brought her home, she laid two eggs in the same day. Both were egg farts, so I am thinking that stress is causing this.
We moved the mister to the top of the metal over the pen. It cools the roof down quite a bit. There is also a sheet over the pen that is wet. I want my girls to be comfy. I guess that I worry too much.

 

[Scrambles55]

As for lighting, I don't think I'll be doing it for my birds. Eggs stay good for up to 4 months in the refrigerator, so I'm hoping I can get enough to last us through winter should my "winter layers" not live up to their reputation, lol.

I had 2 RSL hens that laid all winter long without added light. They only lived for 2 years.

 

[cheeka]

only 11 Eggs here today, I think it's the combo of heat and humidity slowing down the laying. it's miserable.

 

[subhanalah]

[COLOR=800080]I had 2 RSL hens that laid all winter long without added light. They only lived for 2 years.[/COLOR]

awww...don't tell me that, I have one of those. She's one of my friendliest...well...she loves to come up to is is and complain...awwwww

 

[subhanalah]

Still no eggs from the slacker EE's.