{"id":951,"date":"2015-12-04T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-12-04T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:27:09","slug":"keep-laying-hens-happy-and-profitable-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Keep Laying Hens Happy and Profitable in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash&#8230; laying hens need to be comfortable and productive to maintain profitability at any scale of operation. Click this fact sheet from UMaine Extension: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2015\/12\/Bulletin-2217-Winter-Care-of-Your-Laying-Hens.pdf\">Bulletin #2217, Winter Care of Your Laying Hens<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most important management factors to keep your winter flock laying include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Making the transition to supplemental lighting to maintain 15-16 hours of light per day (1 60 watt incandescent\/13 watt compact fluorescent will cover 200 square feet). If have not done this by December, you are behind schedule. Specialists advise to increase light by 15-20 min each week\u00a0 to phase light back in slowly.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping birds warm. Production declines below 55 d F. Managers should consider supplemental heat and also make sure the ration supplies enough energy and nutrition to compensate for the birds biological transitions with colder conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Never forget clean (NOT FROZEN) water, draft reductions, proper ventilation and sanitation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Click this fact sheet from UMaine Extension:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2015\/12\/Bulletin-2217-Winter-Care-of-Your-Laying-Hens.pdf\">Bulletin #2217, Winter Care of Your Laying Hens<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash&#8230; laying hens need to be comfortable and productive to maintain profitability at any scale of operation. Click this fact sheet from UMaine Extension: Bulletin #2217, Winter Care of Your Laying Hens Some of the most important management factors to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poultry-enterprises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}