Also, this batch of hens haven't become good egg producers yet. I only get a couple eggs a day at best, and they tend to be very small.

Last year with fewer hens we gathered 4 to 5 a day and they were large.

I'm giving credit to the extreme temperatures, the chickens don't do well when it's over 100, and it has been above that for days on end at times. Then only drops into the high 90s during a cool period. It will probably be over 105 again by the end of the week.

Temperatures plummeted into the 80s a couple of times this week, it was even cloudy yesterday, that's a huge improvement and I enjoyed the temps and no smoke yesterday. So did the chickens.