Why isn't our light helping egg production?

[Linn Bee]

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not true . if thats the case then why do most birds lay a egg a day.

As ChickenCanoe wrote, an egg starts its journey at a rate of about one every every day. It takes longer than 24 hours for an egg to process through the hen's body. At any one time, there are 3-4 eggs moving through what ChickenCanoe referred to as the hen's "assembly line". About every 24 hours, one egg reaches its goal, but if the hen were disected, you would find the other incomplete eggs in her reproductive system as well as the egg mass that determines her lifetime total of eggs she could lay.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Well put Linn Bee

 

[coolcanoechic]

I purchased my hens in October and they were not laying. I put them on a schedule where the lights come on at 3 am and are turned off after daylight. I let the girls go to bed at sunset when they are ready, and believe me, they go to bed early. I have been getting eggs every day now. It took about three or four weeks for it to start working, but it did.