egglaying

So, today me and my boyfriend went to collect the eggs laid by our 3 hens. We hadn’t collected eggs since Monday, yet there were 11 eggs!! I don't think that's quite abnormal, but then we look at one of the eggs and it had really weird bumps on it that we had never seen before. If anyone knows...

Hello! I have twelve Wyandotte hens, half of them are four years old and the other half three. A year ago they stopped laying (I assume moult, winter, etc), however, when spring came around again they never really started again. We went from ten eggs a day, to two, to one every couple of days...

Here is mama hen keeping watch over her GROWN 4 month old babies, who are fully capable of taking care of themselves. She has fully regained her pre-brooding weight for atleast 2 months, and molted after brooding, still no eggs. Am at a loss. They hatched in december and it's now beginning...

I know that it’s different with every chicken, but I was wondering when approximately silkies start laying? Mine are 4 month old and still aren’t laying 😫 I’ll post a different thread with the gender questions later this week. When did yours start laying?

My chickens and ducks quit laying eggs early summer of 2022, but they were under stress, molting, and on a cheap feed. So I didn't think anything of it. For months now they've all been in new spacious pens, on a layer diet, they're all young and they are all in good health. I've had no predator...

Hi! My chickens all like to use the same ONE nesting box. We have 5 boxes total and I am trying to figure out how to get the chickens to use the other ones that way they’re not stepping on each other or bickering over the ONE favorite. I have golf balls in a few of the other nesting boxes, but...

My silkie hen is about 7 months old now and for the first time ever she is broody. My concern is that we are in mid October. We live in central Louisiana , it does get cold in the winter (40s in the day, 30s at night during the January-February months) I know it isn’t the coldest environment by...

This is my silkie/bantam brahma mix Oakley. She hatched on the April 23rd. I believe she should be around 23 or 24 weeks old. I was petting her today and she started squatting. I know that means she'll start laying soon, but how soon should I expect the first egg? A couple weeks? A month? More...

I have bantams. I think bantams start laying a bit later than standard egg laying breeds. More specifically I have a 4 month old Brahma x Silkie mix, a 2 month old frizzle Cochin and lastly, a 2 month old Silkie. All bantams. Around when should they start laying? They'll definitely be laying...

I did the finger test where you check how far the bones are from the cloaca and we concluded it was clover! Her egg was a cream colour. and a question: is egglaying regular straight away or does it take a while to become regular? Because she hasn’t laid since that first egg.

This Afternoon when I got home, I did my small errands around home. The 3 pullets were out and I came out to check on them. I go back inside for a few minutes and when I go back out again, there was an egg on my back doormat. me & mum were so excited! But our question is who laid it? a) Loona...

I have a 2 year old Ameraucana who would leave me a pretty green egg each day. She hasn’t laid in about 4 days but I find her in the nesting box each day- but no egg. All of my other hens lay brown eggs so I’m not confusing her eggs for another or vice versa. I’ve had a broody hen and she’s not...

Earlier one if my hens was acting sort of sleepy. She is usually a little jerk & tries to attack me (to the extent of spurring me) or "shuffles" around me. I thought it was odd that she wasn't being rude, instead she came & sat on the arm of my chair. A bit later she moved to a tree they all...

Hello fellow chicken tenders! I’m at a bit of a loss and hoping to gain new information after researching online and reading similar posts here, but still unsure. I started with 31 various-breed chickens September 14, 2021 for the first time ever (a dream come true!). A few died in transit, a...

Hey! So some of my spring chicks finally started laying, two days in a row I have gotten a brown egg that is so speckled it is almost white! The speckles fade when I hold the egg and come back once it is left alone. The brown is quite dark under the speckles but its hard to tell. What is going...

I've got two birds - a BR hen that will be two in April and a Light Brahma pullet. The Light Brahma's face has been reddening and she just started squatting in the last week. She's about 6-7 months, so right on schedule. When our original two girls got to POL in 2020, we did *way* too much...

I have been offered a trio of white Cochins. They are from an amazing bloodline. However their age concerns me. They have 2019 rings on them. That means they were hatched in 2019. It’s been a few years since that time and just wanted to know if the hens will lay well. I’ll be attaching some...

So my five little silkie girls have started squatting as of a week or two. I was quite suprised, as they are only 5 1/2 months or so. I can't be sure of who pooped the beautiful nugget, but i know it was one of them. Lulu (my duccle) lays rounder, creamier eggs. Although it wasn't completely...

Hey there, I just bought a new breeding set of bearded buff polish chickens. A cock and 3 hens. Each one of the hens have a different age. Anywhere from 5 months all the way to 2 years. How long till they start laying again ?

This morning I went out to check on the coop and looked inside and just below the roosting bar I found this egg in the shavings below. Like it dropped out overnight. It appears to be just the membrane and no shell along with another much smaller start to an egg. Is this cause for concern? They...