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In order to consistently lay eggs, hens need about 16 hours of daylight and 8 hours of darkness when they're roosting. Once less than 12 hours of daylight is available, egg productions slows down considerably if not ceases completely.
For about a year now we’ve had to use a rope to open and close their coop door because their automatic door broke and we just never got around to installing a new one. So because of this they weren’t being let out in the morning until around 9:30 - 10 (I don’t wake up that late it’s just I don’t usually get out of bed until then )
they were laying an alright amount, but definitely not what their breeds should be producing. All of our hens should lay 4-5 eggs a week and we were only getting around 2 or 3 for each hen, which to some that may seem like a lot but we’d like to be able to completely pay for their food with the money we get from selling their eggs and it usually was never enough. Even one of our hens wasn’t laying altogether.
But we finally were able to install their automatic door which (slowly) closes and opens when it gets dark, and when it gets light outside.
And man have our hens been busy girls popping out eggs almost everyday since we installed the door. It’s a random thing to be excited about but they lay some very pretty eggs (greenish-blue and pink) so I like to marvel at the colorful egg’s in the cartons.
For about a year now we’ve had to use a rope to open and close their coop door because their automatic door broke and we just never got around to installing a new one. So because of this they weren’t being let out in the morning until around 9:30 - 10 (I don’t wake up that late it’s just I don’t usually get out of bed until then )
they were laying an alright amount, but definitely not what their breeds should be producing. All of our hens should lay 4-5 eggs a week and we were only getting around 2 or 3 for each hen, which to some that may seem like a lot but we’d like to be able to completely pay for their food with the money we get from selling their eggs and it usually was never enough. Even one of our hens wasn’t laying altogether.
But we finally were able to install their automatic door which (slowly) closes and opens when it gets dark, and when it gets light outside.
And man have our hens been busy girls popping out eggs almost everyday since we installed the door. It’s a random thing to be excited about but they lay some very pretty eggs (greenish-blue and pink) so I like to marvel at the colorful egg’s in the cartons.
