It's funny how the stuff we mess up for years is usually just us going too hard at something, and nobody says anything until they watch us do it. Same thing happens with stretching, or kneading bread, or even how hard you hold a pencil when you draw. We get in our own way by pushing too much instead of letting the thing do what it wants.

$45 a week is nothing next to the talk that actually matters, and a dark theater never gave us that.

Shade might help a little but plenty of hens slow down in July no matter what you do, that's just the heat and shorter days catching up before molt. Four eggs could easily be a fluke from a few days of cooler weather, so don't go thinking one sheet fixed the whole problem.