What to do with the other chickens

[aart]

Pullets coming into lay this late in the year is a crap shoot.
They'll lay when they are ready.
Diet can have an effect too.

 

[akostka1988]

Orpingtons lay around 24 weeks. The problem is that the shortage of natural light with the days getting shorter and this impacting the said number of hours that they are getting to influence their egg laying. So if you have chicks born in Mid to late May of this year... they will lay this year but the when and the frequency of laying are the million dollar questions for us. The number of daylight hours that we put into their daily schedule by adding some natural or synthetic lighting such as in the earlier hours of the day in the coop will help increase egg production and also provide better chances for them to lay more eggs in a week however they will always only lay only one egg per day.

I’m not sure exactly when they were born I purchased them mid May from Tractor Supply and they were labeled as pullets. I’ve decided against using artificial lighting because my schedule isn’t consistent and I’m too poor for fancy timers and stuff lol