I'mmmmmmmm Baaaaaaaaaack!
OMG, my chile turned out really good and I PIGGED out. (burp) Now I'm stuffed and a tad uncomfortable, but heck I'll suffer.
Here's a question, I have (supposedly) 9 hens a laying, but I usually get only 6 to 7 eggs and 7 is a rare occasion and never more then that. How does that stack up with the rest of you that have been doing this a lot longer them me. (nubie) ?
LOL!! That's ok, I have 15 and I have been getting only one egg every other day if I'm lucky!!
I'm down to 2 a day. That bragging about 3 out of 3 each day bit me in the butt. It's gonna take a lot longer to get those gifts out to neighbors. Esp. since Caunnie's eggs are embarrassingly long and skinny. Bleh. They are single yolk eggs - just long and skinny and sit funny in the carton.
You just need to put a light on them, there was someone else on here, oh I think jess,
they need aprox 14 hours of light to maintain egg production, if you put a timer light on them, to make up those hours, they should continue to lay through winter, I did it a few years ago, and I need to move my hens back to the main coop where I have power cause that's what I'm gonna do!! Problem is most of my girls are very young and just at POL so if I don't they won't probably lay till spring!
My issue is that they've dramatically dropped off egg production even WITH the lighting I have in the coop. It's a 40 watt bulb in a 35s/f coop; should be adequate! Right now it goes on at 4:30am, and sunset is 6:27pm still, so this should be fine. I was getting 7-8 eggs a day and now I'm getting 5-7. Princess and Willow haven't laid eggs in over a week; I only got 5 from Willow before she quit again. My 4 brown egg layers are still laying every day for the most part, and everyone else is around every other, to every third day
Unfortunately there is no controlling their laying completely. The added light just helps. They are going to slow down. Unless you have all production hens. Sorry. I gave up trying to control things when it comes to chickens. They just don't follow the rules very well.