Stress can cause a pause in laying. It takes them 25 hours to make an egg. They may be getting ready to molt, but I am new at this as well and only have 5 adult hens with 16 chicks from this spring hatch. We only had one of our chickens molt and it was a very hard molt. No eggs for some time from her. Give them a couple days, I bet it will pick up again.
Kymberly
From: jjgeorge1960 <jgeorge@pctelcom.coop>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 8:32 PM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Declining egg laying
Good Evening,
We have a small farm in NE Colorado where we raise butcher hogs and dairy goats along with our flock of hens. I use the milk from the goats to feed out the pigs as well as to make goat milk soaps and other bath products.
Being new to raising chickens and I have a question. We have 38 hens and 1 rooster ranging 1n age of 1 year to 3 years of age. We raised the yearlings from chicks last spring and bought the 3 year old. We've had some really bad cold spells in the last month plus warm weather. My husband cleaned the coop and built a new roost for them last Friday. Since he did that our egg product has gone down from 24 to 27 eggs a day about a month ago to today only 5 eggs. He thinks they are reacting to his cleaning but we don't know for sure.
Can anyone shed some light on what is going on with them? We've not changed their feed or anything along that line.
Thank you for any help you can send our way and for letting me join the group.
Jennifer
NE CO
We have a small farm in NE Colorado where we raise butcher hogs and dairy goats along with our flock of hens. I use the milk from the goats to feed out the pigs as well as to make goat milk soaps and other bath products.
Being new to raising chickens and I have a question. We have 38 hens and 1 rooster ranging 1n age of 1 year to 3 years of age. We raised the yearlings from chicks last spring and bought the 3 year old. We've had some really bad cold spells in the last month plus warm weather. My husband cleaned the coop and built a new roost for them last Friday. Since he did that our egg product has gone down from 24 to 27 eggs a day about a month ago to today only 5 eggs. He thinks they are reacting to his cleaning but we don't know for sure.
Can anyone shed some light on what is going on with them? We've not changed their feed or anything along that line.
Thank you for any help you can send our way and for letting me join the group.
Jennifer
NE CO
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