by Pajarita » Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:56 am
6 pm is too late, Liz (I cover my caged birds at that time because it's already night and they are already asleep). They wake up at 6:30 am and you are turning off the lights at 6 pm so, in reality, they are having days that are almost 12 hours long and they will breed easy on that schedule, especially if you give them too much protein (which you have been doing with the eggs). If you want them to go back on track with the seasons, you need to turn off their lights at 3:30 pm to make their days as short as you can and reduce protein drastically because we will be having the winter solstice in another month and the days will start getting longer then - so, if you don't break the 'cycle' now, they will just keep on producing sexual hormones without rest for the winter.