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Chickens will lay eggs in sub zero temperatures. Here in Canada temperature drop below freezing for almost 4 months of the year regularly and chickens continue to lay eggs. Temperature changes are much less a factor to egg laying as light. A chicken needs 14 hours of light per day to produce eggs.

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