Chickens lay fewer eggs in winter. It’s a well-established fact, and the reason most commercial producers keep their hen sheds artificially lit at night. On a small scale, in the back garden, we’re obviously not going to do that.
They also lay fewer eggs as they age, and those two factors have had a dramatic effect on the number of eggs we gathered last month: they were down by a third, from around 90 a month at the height of summer, to just 60. This month, if anything, is looking like being even leaner.
The day when we add to our flock is getting ever closer.
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Our egg count has declined dramatically over the last couple of months. Recently all our hens decided to moult at the same time meaning we had hardly any. Now picked up a little, but still not many at all. Our flock is getting on a bit as well now, so I think we will be looking at getting some more next spring.