Re: Are your girls still laying?

usenet_at_isbd.co.uk
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: 5 Nov 2004 14:13:43 GMT

Karen Valley <karen.valley@orange.net> wrote:
> usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote in message news:<2uulkjF2ek5qdU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> > Karen Valley <karen.valley@orange.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just interested in when I can expect them to stop laying for winter.
> > > They've definitely slowed down, but I'm still getting 1-2 eggs most
> > > days. Will the clock change be the final straw?!
> >
> > I don't really see how the 'clock change' will affect the chickens,
> > they don't wear watches you know, so from their point of view nothing
> > has changed at all.
>
> I'm glad there are other more helpful people on this ng! I may be a
> chicken newbie but even I've sussed that telling the time isn't high
> on their list of skills.
>
:-), it was meant somewhat lightheartedly, but there is a more basic
point in what I said.

> The point is that they have a shorter day. I let them out at 7ish in
> the morning - last week they put themselves to bed around 6. This week
> - following the clock change - it's around 5. They have an hour less
> of daylight.

I did try and explain further what I meant. I even said that if you
let them out at the same *clock* time each day then they would get an
hour less light. The point I was trying to make was that if you
didn't change your day simply because the clocks have gone back then
the chickens certainly won't notice any difference, nothing has really
changed.

They are getting less light because you are getting up an hour later
than you were through the summer. It's nothing to do with them,
that's all I was trying to say.

It all depends on whether you have to conform to 'official' times and
hours or not. If you happen to work at home and/or run some sort of
smallholding it's quite likely that when the clocks change you simply
get up at the same 'real' time, rather than an hour later as the clock
is trying to tell you. 

-- 
Chris Green