low egg count

andy46 · « **on:** June 15, 2014, 13:30 »

Can this weeks hot weather effect the girls laying thier eggs as mine where laying four a day but since its been hot they seem to have slowed down.They have plenty of water to drink

tosca100 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2014, 13:47 »

I thought that might have been the case here, with temps well into the thirties, but everyone else is complaining about too many eggs. I am putting my shortage down to the fact that we had red mite problems which are now under control.

joyfull · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2014, 13:12 »

yes the hot weather can have that effect (as can red-mite).

andy46 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2014, 14:42 »

Not got red mite (fingers crossed) and the girls are back to normal and laying three or four a day

thanks for advice xx

rufty · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2014, 13:20 »

Mine have always been three eggs out of three hens ever since they started laying (got them as POL, about a year ago) only slowing down to two a day over the depths of winter. However over the last couple of weeks we have dropped down to about two a day so i suspect that we too are seeing a slowing down due to heat.
Either that or they are getting fat ;-)

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