[Flaming Conservative]

I thought they’d lay year round if you put in daylight bulbs in their coop.

[Sarcazmo]

Lazamataz, Have you tried this?

[Jotmo]

“I thought they’d lay year round if you put in daylight bulbs in their coop.”

We have about 75 - 80 chickens right now.

They need a regular 16 hours of light. We have lights on timers in our coups to give them regular light all year round.

Production does drop some in the cold weather, but the bigger affect for us is they eat a lot more, and we can’t free range them when there’s snow on the ground. Chickens will not step on snow, even if there is green grass on the other side. Subsequently, our feed costs go up. And because they will not leave the coop, we have to clean it much more often.

So it takes more time a money in the winter, but ours lay about 50 - 60 eggs a day pretty consistently.

[olivia3boys]

I’m new to chicken farming and I’ve been told they should “rest” in the winter. . .but if there are truly going to be egg shortages, I guess I might try the daylight bulbs.