Our daylight varies from 15 hours in June to 9.25 hours now. Temperature from 90F to 32F. Our egg production has not changed during this period. Words like optimum, can effect, etc, are rather meaningless to us.
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
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> Here is a calender you can check for daylight hours for different areas in the United States. The average hen needs 14 hours of daylight for "optimum egg laying".  Optimum laying are the jkey words. Temperature extremes, stress, feed, et.. can affect laying too.
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> http://www.calendar-365.com/calendar/2012/June.html
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> Cathryn rainbowsilkies MI
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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