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Egg production

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Sharon Yorks:
I'm a little leery of using artificial light. I know many do without problems, but when I tried it last fall, one of my hens started laying a gi-normous egg that most of the chicks were having trouble hatching out of. I stopped using the light and her egg slowly reduced to normal. I'm sure it was just a freak thing, but I've elected to let nature take it's course. I DO turn on a several lights in the coop, but that is just during the day to brighten it up in the coop. Here in Ohio, we have some dreary grey days.

All of my hens have stopped laying, and my pullets that were hatched March 15th and April 7th are just now starting to check out the hen boxes. No eggs yet though. Seven months seems like a long time. The only pullet I have laying right now is (Reba) the little egg machine I started this post about...but then, she didn't start laying until she was a little over 6 months old. I wonder if the egg producing gene follows the mommy or daddy. I have a full brother to her and am wondering if he'll be instrumental in producing good egg layers. 

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