Hi there, I'm not too far away from you. South of Rochester, almost to the PA border. I'm guessing day length, mine are tailing off also. To keep them laying you'll have to provide lights. I think it's 16 hours a day, something iike that. And as the season wears on, maybe heat also----depending on the weather. Some people have luck with a simple string of Christmas twinkle lights on a timer. I tried that a couple of years ago, didn't work. I think you need a lot more than that. My neighbor who sells eggs uses regular lightbulbs, several of them by the looks.
For the rest of you-----we up here in the left end of NYS live in an area with the lowest amount of daylight, especially sun, of the entire US. It's due to the lakes. Lakes Erie and Ontario actually overlap, and both hold temperature much longer than the air. Most air masses travel west to east, so we get fog. Misty, vague fog, lots of clouds, known as "Lake Ontario Gray", or Kodak calls it "cloudy bright". Either way, we are down to half way to the shortest days, the weather has cooled off, and the effect has already set in. It actually gets brighter when it snows, because the snow reflects the light!
Diane S.
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From: dawnmariegrace@yahoo.com
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:45 AM
Subject: RE: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Molting
Why are they called that? They are fed Layena feed and given scraps. They have a large yard where they eat bugs and suck. One was eating a toad the other day! It has nothing to do with the molt?
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