How can you make chickens lay more eggs?
Chicken egg laying is tied to the amount of light they receive. It is tied to the season (more hours of light in summer, fewer hours in winter). Thus is you just sit back and watch the seasons come and go, hens will lay fewer and fewer eggs as the hours of light diminish in winter. If you supplement their hours of light they will lay more. My resesearch shows that around 16 hours of light is ideal. So, when the season begins to change and natural light begins to be less than 16 hours, you can begin to provide artificial light to take it back up to the total of 16 hours. Of course this means adding more and more minutes of light until the season changes again and days begin to lengthen. We used to just begin turning on the supplemental light to the chickens when we got up in the morning and unplugged it when we went to bed. We have heard though, that it is better to just do it in the morning an let them go to bed with the sunset.That way they don’t get caught outside the coop in the dar
