What kind of light bulb?

I don't suspect you need anything other a plain 60w that you already have laying around. I can't imagine that it has to be lit up like high noon.

Anyone?

 

It could be the light. My first to lay was 17 wks. my latest was 27 wks. I have seen some BYC posts saying as long as 30 wks. I leave a red 11 watt sign light bulb on 24/7. My girls lay fine. They aren't in the coop very mich during the day except to lay.

 

My suggestion would get a timer so the light on and off would be more constant. If you could you might want to move to a 40 watt. Might save a little electric.

 

If you can put the light on a timer and have it turn on before sunrise. I believe it's better to start their day earlier than to end it abruptly with the light turning off and it's suddenly dark. Meaning go ahead and wake them up early but let them go to sleep naturally.

 

my chickens slowed a bit . so i put a 27 watt energy effecent florecent lite on a timer. it goes on at 4am an off at 8am. there laying up a storm again. the timers are only 5 or 6 buckes

 

Mine have light until between 10 & 11:30 PM. There are 40 watt bulbs in their coop
area and there are floods in the run. We also have several brooder lights in the barn
that are on 24/7. Having a light turn on early is not practical for us, especially since most
of the time we spend with our chickens is in the evening.

Ours lay like crazy.

 

I've put a 75 watt bulb in the henhouse on a timer in the winter for earlier in the mornings, say it comes on at 5 a.m. and then goes off around 2 or 3 in the afternoon so they can have natural light to find their way to the roosts and not suddenly be left in the dark when the light goes off trying to find their way back to the roosts.

 

i have a big coop sectioned off area in my pole barn.The barn doesn't have any windows so I put a 40watt light on in one end of the coop.I leave it on all the time otherwise it is totally too dark in there.Everybody seems just as happy and I am getting lots of eggs now out of my little pullets who I hatched out may 10this spring.