stop laying

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 have a young pullet who lays an egg almost every day. She does fine with it but she has a massive hernia on her side which was caused by a ruptured air sac when she was a chick. She’s seen a vet and it’s not life threatening as long as it isn’t punctured. She basically has her intestines...

I am a newbie learning and have been raising chickens for 1-1/2 years and have two flocks integrated now from 1-day-old peeps straight from hatcheries. My second batch are now laying! I have 19 hens and 2 roosters. It has been an adventure from building the coop and run, to adding on a sick bay...

Friends of ours are moving and could not take their flock. I have a coop and run built and was just waiting for a day like this. We brought the girls over last night and tucked them all in. At day break I went to check on them, the automatic door was open to the run ( which they're used to) and...

Hello, my 8-9 month old female coturnix has been laying abnormal eggs recently. As seen in the picture two are shell-less and the third one has a thin, very fragile shell. Today no egg was laid. She has a high-protein diet and I provide her with calcium supplement. She eats 1 mealworm a day...

I recently lost my biggest hen suddenly, with no signs of illness or trauma. She just kinda dropped dead. Since she died, my other Rhode Island Red has stopped laying. She doesn’t have any symptoms of being egg bound and has been eating normally. My other two Easter Eggers are still laying...

Hi guys I'm looking for some help as we are totally new to chickens and our flock have suddenly stopped laying this week. We got 4 ex-bats on Easter Sunday (5.5 weeks ago) and they all laid every day since we've had them. We lost 1 of these girls 2 weeks ago but don't know why (she wasn't right...