❎ High Egg Production In The Winter... Why Do My Chickens Lay More In The Winter ?
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- There's a lot of talk about why chickens egg production slows down to not laying at all in the winter time. I'm to say different as my chickens egg production picks up and I'm not sure why? I'm sharing everything I do for my chickens health during the cold months and may be the reason for increased egg production.
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End of summer egg drop off is due to molt. Chickens (all birds) go through an annual molt. At this time all food and energy reserves are put towards growing new feathers not egg production. Egg production usually starts to pick up after the molt is finished and after the winter solstice. That's what we have observed on our homestead. Take good care and thanks for the video
Not all breeds go through the summer and winter the same. It matters a lot on what breeds you have picked, there housing comfort and the environment you live in. Egg pumpers(egg layers only), egg layer dual purpose , exhibition, meat breed dual purpose, large or small, ect. Some breeds are just miserable in summer months and will slow down. Some are just miserable is winter months and will slow down. You should have shown us a lot more of what chickens you have. You probably got chickens that do much better in cooler climates is what I suspect. In the heat of the summer try giving them a shallow bath they can easily get into to cool there feet off with a patio block at the bottom, ice in their water, a lot more shade, water down some dirt they can roll around in and cool off under some shade the night before, don't give them sugar grains like corn or high protein in the summer which will create more heat for them to deal with. This will help them lay more eggs in summer just like a warmer coop and a higher corn diet does in winter. Comfortable chickens will always lay more eggs just like a good diet will.
Chickens slow down in heat they are going g Tru a natural molting period
Most likely the summer slow down is when the birds are molting
hello bro im from india, going to buy 10-15pcs chickens at home, bro which breed is good for egg purpose only, im learning more about them,, common breeds here are RIR, dp cross,, i want organic chicken,, is RIR good for eggs?? brown eggs hope u reply bro,,
Yes, RIR is great for brown eggs and meat. Better for eggs unless you have a meatier type there.@@princeanjogrewal
@@danielwagner6290 tnx bro i only want for brown eggs,, i dont need for mest ,, okay i will get RIR then thank you 🤗
What? No update on the owl? I'm glad your girls are layin a lot of eggs for you right now. Maybe YOU just turn them on, Mike! Lol!
Not yet but now we have a hawk and my chickens just stand around as it eats one of them 🤦♂️
Chicken breeds that are slow molters, like orpingtons and wyandottes are generally light summer layers and heavier winter layers after the first molt (usually at 18 or so months). Hard fast molters are generally better summer layers and take a winter break till late January or so, when the light changes.
Thanks for the info!
I think you've just made such a nice coop they're relaxed and just continue to lay. The temp in July may cause the laying to slow down. Especially if they're multing in July. Your birds look very happy!
They do love it lol the old one was getting to small
That's great they lay in the winter! A lot of other channels I watch are having problems and not getting any or just 1 or 2! Great video Mike!☺☺
Thank you , yeah it works out because I sell more eggs when folks don’t have any but July mine stop and take a break
I had a problem with my chickens not laying as much. We fed high protein feed but lacked vitamin D3. I changed feed which included D3 and production has increased. Vitamin D3 is needed to help promote the absorption of Calcium. The protein, Calcium and Vitamin D3 work together to strengthen the health of your eggs. The extra minerals are a bonus.
At 1 time we had 30 chickens and they would lay all year around . My chickens never had a slow down period . And I think it was the minerals . We got so many eggs everybody around had eggs . We gave eggs to everybody. I was at the store and had like 12 dozen in the car and while pumping gas i was asking people if they wanted some free eggs. I did get the " This lady is crazy look" but hey free yard eggs are hard to give away . Seems people are afraid of yard eggs they would rather get them at the store. I sold the chickens when my husband had his stroke.
Bet the teenagers loved free eggs lol
I would have loved a gift of eggs. Thank you for all you did. Sorry about your husband.
Yes same, I would have loved free eggs!! Even from a stranger. Sorry for your loss :-(
Same experence here
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All my breeds from this spring are dual purpose hens that started laying this fall and now getting close to the end of December haven't slowed down. Some lay every day without a break. They free-range in the backyard and seam happy
Good info. We sure enjoyed the music you selected to use too! 😊👍
Happy you enjoyed the video 😊
Looks like you are heating the water. Worked for my girls.
Hi Mike
I think cuz they get lots of feed minerals and scrap's
Love the way you did your chicken house
Oh it's snowing here right now
Happy New Years 🎉💐💐
Thank you and happy New Years to you. Yeah they are spoiled chicks lol
Wouldnt be sunnyslope if you all had normal😄
Love CogHill MaryCarl is the chicken queen...
Hope you and the family had an awesome Christmas and may the new year only bring you the best..
Have a good evening ❄❄❄
We do too and we hope the best new year to you as well
I have that same free standing feeder and love it. Well worth the money. My girls are on break from laying right now. But that's okay i believe they need the rest.
That feeder legs kept falling off so I had to screw them down 🤷♂️ but I like it 👍
I wish my chickens would just start laying eggs. They are 22 weeks old this week. I'm giving the freeloaders a slight break being it's winter and short daylight. They get our scraps but might add the layer boost and see what happens. Thanks for the tip. 👍
Can’t say enough that love the name , yeah breaks are good but mine take them in the wrong time of the year lol
Most new chick's have to be 6 mo or older to start laying with a long term laying of 18 months. Low winter lights will stop laying. Get a light and a timer so it will turn on at 4am to give the three to 5 hours of daylight. Be patient and socialize your birds.they need to feel safe with you. Wear the same hat and jacket to attend to them. Remember to be patience and you will be rewarded.
My hens lay 8 to 10 eggs a day and it's winter here to.
Isn’t that nuts
Gonna implement of some those ideas! Thx
Awesome happy I could help 👍👍😊
I’ll be calling on for bee tips and tricks when I get a hive
I have 10 ISA Brown 2 1/2 years old now. We get 9 or 10 eggs every day, in all seasons. Very occasionally we get 11 or 8. They are L, XL or Jumbo. They didn't slow down one bit last winter and we live in Southern Ontario, cold, and snowy. I don't give any supplements. The girls don't molt other than the odd feather. We feed a balanced feed, scrapes and cooked oatmeal late in the afternoon. I also give them back broken up egg shells, oyster shell and grit. They are free range except in garden growing season. Even on this snowy day in late November, their door is open but they don't like snow and don't venture far. I also don't feed or water in their coop. It stays so clean. They only use it for sleeping and laying. There's a tray covered in chopped straw under their roosts. Everything just slides off into a wheelbarrow. Takes a minute to clean. 🐔 🐔 🐔 are easy if you have the right set up. Thanks to my husband, I do!
Thanks for the video, only my opinion: (take it with a grain of salt) but I would never feed a chicken any prepared food ever (grocery store junk, like chips, cookies, pretzels, etc) I do feed them left over pieces parts of fish from when I go fishing, meal worms, and earthworms from stuff that gets composted like veggies past their prime. Thanks for the video, Nice set-up. thumbs up.
Fair enough! My chickens are on blood pressure meds lol
@@SunnySlopeHomestead okay, but what they eat, , , is ultimately what you eat
My chickens lay great in the winter too! I have a very diverse flock of, at least, 12 breeds. I was thinking people just say stuff they hear so we all just end up regurgitating things that aren’t true. But one variable I thought of was when my chickens became mature enough to lay. It was in winter. I don’t use supplements of give them medicine. If they can’t hack I guess we eating chicken. Just a thought.
Hi Mike I'm in central Alabama my girls slow down in the winter or stop, I feed them scraps layers crumbles and 5 way chicken scratch and meal worms I'm lucky if I get 1 egg a week but my hens are older.
Your chickens are like no other chickens
You can say that again lol
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My dang chickens flat out went on strike July August and September. I mean with 20 chickens I was getting two or three eggs per day. Here it is end of October and I’m just now starting to get about five eggs per day. I tried feeding them the soaked beans. I just started giving them some yogurt. I’ve tried all kinds of silly stuff that I never remember having to do with any of the chickens we had when I was a kid. We literally just let them eat grass and chicken, scratch, laying pellets and oyster shells. Maybe a little bit of table scraps. Chickens these days seem to be like millennials………… way more sensitive and they were back in the 90s
I’d bet they are being harassed by a predator or something is upsetting them. I weed eater around my coop once and they stopped laying for a week
@@SunnySlopeHomestead Nothing has ever killed any of them. I’ve never had any broke or damaged eggs………..my chicken pen is in the middle of large yard and my dog is on patrol all day. Anything gets in the yard he escorts it out or eliminates it quickly. Unless there’s a snake under the barn or something and I look in at night to see if I can catch any critters and have seen no sign of critters.
My hens started to laying in November their 1styear. I have 13 and this February 23rd and been getting 8 to.13 eggs a day all winter.
Good deal as mine slow down in the summer months for some reason
@sunnyslopehomestead-It was sometime back, but I remember reading about the summer heat being a stressor and any stressor can result in decreased egg production.
Well, you know I don't have much experience with chickens yet, but honestly my four girls are still laying pretty regularly and that's with two of them going through a molt even. So I don't really know, but it sure seems like we are doing something differently that is working well too. Guess we'll see if they do like yours and slow down in the summer months instead.
Mine molt n the fall and it drives me nuts thinking they will freeze
@sunnyslopehomestead-I do too but they always seem to do well. LOL
You can have that snow and cold, I prefer the heat and sun.
Hahha right
My hen don’t lay at all anymore winter or summer
I’ve got ages from three years old to 6 weeks old. I’ve only got one Hen that lays
I can’t find what you were giving your Birds the yellow stuff please let me know I’m sure you’ve written this hundreds of times but I’m sorry I can’t find it. I’m I’m new to your channel I have just subscribed
I’m in Buffalo and we are getting 5-8 eggs from 13 hens still. We don’t supplement light either.
Where did you buy that I don't know where to find it I'm going to need it for my my chickens chickens chickens
Sir,your video is very EDUCATIVES, but what do you put inside the water,pls
I have 2 hens that haven't layed a egg in 3 months the go to the nest a set but don't lay a egg
Do you add new chickens to your flock every year? I hear that is another way to ensure eggs. Good tip for added vitamin D.
Yes , the hawks and owls keep my flock Young. I usually raise about 30 birds and when I get down to 12 or so I get another 10-15 chicks.
What kind of minerals are you giving them in the water that looks lemonade
Hahaha I actually say my chickens are broken because they lay more in the winter time. In summer they want to hatch the eggs and not lay. But the vitamins you’re giving them are great, I use rooster booster for their vitamins.
Mine do the same and want to hatch eggs lol very odd
Love the name 👍👍👍
@@SunnySlopeHomestead thanks I just took out my first name “Tasha” it’s not just my crazy homestead it’s also my husband and the 5 kids that drove me to maybe crazy 😂🤣😜
My chickens lay all winter long. I live in West Tennessee. They free range and get scraps.
I can't find out what was in that jug - that looked like mountain dew? What did you add to their water?
Hi Mike ! About how long do the wood chips last until the next clean up ? Just curious ~
Good question! with my chickens being stuck in the coop they last about two week before we change it out 👍
Looking forward to this video...I'm only 30 seconds in right now. My hens are pretty good layers in the Winter; 17-19 eggs a day as opposed to 24-26 a day in Spring and Summer (35 hens). I'm in northeast Alabama, so I'm not near as cold a climate as your are in. I do give the girls an additional 3 hours of supplemental light when the days are shorter. Do your hens molt in late summer? Mine molt in October and November. Happy New Year! Now you're putting down new bedding...I'm gonna watch now cause I've been listening and typing!!
Patricia
Mine molt in late October too and it freaks me out thinking they will freeze if we get a cold front ... seems my birds are not so odd after reading everyone’s comments
@@SunnySlopeHomestead Have you ever got your hands on one of those 'molting' hens when it's 30° outside?? They feel like they are in 80° weather. I've been amazed what their body temp seems to be.
My hens lay better in the winter than they do in the summer I think the temperature in summer is why it happens
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How many chickens you running? What breed? Thank you
Mine are the same
I would be careful with excessive salt and sugar.
The chickens don't get as much Vitamin D during the winter months, so that's a possibility. Also, it might depend on the breed.
we have boring chickens that slow down egg production in the winter... ;-)
Feed them Mountain Dew 😆👍👍
@@SunnySlopeHomestead would Red Bull work?
Calcium intake has a factor in egg laying
I used to give oyster shells but the eggs were very hard and bumpy so I stopped. I need to get them grit though
It's that fancy chicken coop is why they are laying a bunch of eggs
😆😆😆👍 May be lol
Oh and that coop was an old smoking hut at my work. It took over a year of airing out to stop smelling 🤢
@@SunnySlopeHomestead that is what it is then, they know it was a smoke house and they better lay eggs or it will be a smoke house again.
3:07 looks like West Virginia Mtn Dew.
Here in Florida we call it Swamp Water
We call popcorn water or shine
hello world im from india, going to buy 10-15pcs chickens at home, which breed is good for egg purpose only, im learning more about them,, common breeds here are RIR, dp cross,, i want organic chicken,, is RIR good for eggs?? brown eggs only hope someone will help thank you
At the end of summer they molt
Try baked fresh pinto beans it will give them full stomache s
My chickens lay all winter. It has to do with the breed and climate.
Black Australorps lay all year.
As you get older you'll learn not to waste so much food .
Where do you get this vitamin d supplement?
I bought it off Amazon 😊👍
Interesting behavior. What age are your chickens? Those that are just old enough to lay eggs will regardless of the time of year. They usually cycle with the older girls next winter when they don't get enough light.. Calcium in their diet is another reason they stop. If they are eating mostly bugs & grubs etc and not the calcium rich layer feed it can slow down egg production. Going through a molt will slow down egg production and most birds do that in the summer as well. Another reason is stress. Predators, aggressive birds in the flock, too much heat even loud noises can upset them and cause them to stop. They also often lay their eggs outside the coop just because they prefer to or don't want to wait for a box to be empty.
Do any of these ring any bells?
They range from 2 to 1 year old may have a few 3 year olds in there. My chickens lay in boxes and on the floor every once and awhile. I stop giving the calcium due to hard eggs shell and rough eggs. Mine free range with layer feed . Stress is a factor sometimes but usually only a day or two
It could be the breed of chicken
Hi where can I order the vit d supplement ?
I bought mine off Amazon 👍
My not lay at all
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Well I just came across this video & wanted to share with you my first year (6 months) experience so far. First I think I have retarded chickens ! Yep, retarded... they started laying in October 2023 & right now I pickup about 12 to 18 eggs everyday ! I have a buff Orpington rooster that starts to crow at 10pm & every 2 hours until day break ! I never raised chickens from chicks before but I’m pretty sure roosters are supposed to crow in the day time ! lol. As far as egg production goes I wasn’t expecting eggs until February/March so I guess my girls didn’t get that memo ! All I feed my birds is starter grower mix & wild bird seed mixed together at a 1 to 1 ratio. Protein is at 20%. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but, I’m not going to change it even after 20 weeks old . Everything I have read & every person I’ve talked to including the hatchery I got them from stated 18-20% protein is what chickens need. I also leave grit & oyster shells in the pen/coop at all times. That’s all I personally know at this point. I’ve lost 6 birds due to another chicken killing them. If I discover the murderer... she’s gonna be dinner that day !
Uhh I only give them Vitamin D. - LITERALLY gives them a layer boost WITH vitamin D. See how quickly and early he flashes the pic of the bottle. SMH. Just be truthful. You’re giving them a layer booster.
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Chicken butt 😁
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Maybe someone is stealing your eggs in summer!