Any idea why our chickens are only laying one egg when we usually got 9-10. We think it is the

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9. Here in the South, almost all free range chickens reduce their laying during the heat of summer.

Unless you keep them in air conditioned and heated coops, chickens tend to reduce the quantities of eggs they lay during extreme heat and cold.

This is why big Ag keeps their laying hens in cages. It's easier to keep them in AC and Heat when they are locked up in a building.

At the farmer's market, almost all egg producers are short on eggs during the heat of summer.

In winter the shorter daylight cycle will also reduce the number of eggs laid. Big Ag keeps lights on the chickens in winter to prevent a slow down in egg production.

We just let the hens do their thing without providing artificial stimulation. We just let them do what comes naturally, just like Grand Mom did.