My house too. I was just about to start a thread about this when I saw your post. I've got 37 hens/pullets, and I know that at least 30 of them are laying. But today I only got 8 eggs. Back in June I was averaging 25 a day, July was 20 a day, and now it's more like an average of 13 a day.
I started building my flock a year and a half ago, and most of them just turned a year old in July. This is when my last flock started molting, but they were a few months older than these girls in the fall when they started their molt. I wasn't expecting a major molt until later in the year.
So does molt happen because of the hens' age, or is it related to the season???
I started building my flock a year and a half ago, and most of them just turned a year old in July. This is when my last flock started molting, but they were a few months older than these girls in the fall when they started their molt. I wasn't expecting a major molt until later in the year.
So does molt happen because of the hens' age, or is it related to the season???