laying behavior

  1. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Egg Laying Behavior in 6 y/o Hens - Should I be concerned?

    My small mixed flock of four hens is a couple months shy of 6 years old. I'm noticing more quirks early on in this laying season. Below are their egg laying behaviors with some questions: Darla - EE: she started this season with a prolific bang (2 days on/1 day off), however, yesterday she...
  2. 4

    Should I remove the curtains?

    I have a pullet that is at the point of lay for her breed (blue australorp, 20 weeks) and has been showing all the signs she’s ready. She’s been going in and out of the coop each morning for two weeks, reliably submissive squatting, red comb and wattles etc. I put the curtains up a few weeks...
  3. Y

    Pullet laid 2 underdeveloped eggs under roosting bar

    4.5 month old mutt breed pullet laid 2 thin shelled eggs under roosting bar last night! These two would have been her 4th and 5th eggs. One is nearly translucent very soft and burst upon impact. The other is slightly more solid but still see through as it looks like it didn't fully create its...
  4. Brehchickens

    One Hen Laying in the Evening - Flock is Eating the Egg. Please help 🙏

    My 1 of 5 hens are laying at 5:30pm - 6:00pm when the sun is going down. My hens began first time laying for about a month now. Everyday around 8am - 2pm I have been collecting 4 eggs consistently. I have only seen 5 eggs twice since they began laying. I excused it as one of them is a late...
  5. TeriyakiTheChicken

    Chicken skips laying several days, then lays multiple eggs

    I have an Easter Egger, about a year and a half old who has been laying for a while now. She has recently started skipping one or two days of laying and then laying two it three eggs in a day, either all softshell or only one is normal. Some of the time the egg bursts on the way out. She lays...
  6. winterwolf4

    Egg Color for Ameracaunas

    I have purebred Self Blue Ameracauna hens from Cackle Hatchery. Is the egg color supposed to be kind of green? I don't currently have any olive egger hens. I sold all of those.
  7. T

    When you both want to nest in your favorite roost & the other hen just won't move!

    So I went out to do my morning check on the ladies. Gave them their favorite treat - blueberries. Called out my "chick, chick, chick, chick" and only got a few takers. Which was strange. So I went into the coop and found this! LOL! I pulled the green egg out from under Hawkeye, but apparently...
  8. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Is it normal for older hens to take longer breaks?

    My RIR hybrid is 2 months shy of 4 y/o. She's always been productive layer. This past fall/winter she took a normal molting break, then started up laying again end of jan/early Feb. She went from laying every other day to two days on/one day off. Then, over the last week she went back down to...
  9. M

    Intro

    Intro time... I live in Tallahassee and have a flock of 7. 3 Easter Eggers 3 black links & 1 black rescue chicken. I have a cat and dog as well who are bossed around and afraid of the chickens. This is my 2nd try at chickens I lost 4 earlier this year to a racoon. Improved my coop & had no...
  10. K

    What would make my girl stop laying?

    A little back story, she’s about 7.5 months old. She started laying a little over a month ago. I haven’t gotten any eggs from her in 2 weeks (she’s my only white egg layer), what could be causing this? All of my research has suggested it may be stress related but nothing has changed. She’s an...
  11. Hope4Hennsyvania

    Update : my Chubby checker lay her 1st egg?

    Update, found a little egg NEXT to the coop. Checker has quieted down. Why would she decide to drop her 1st egg in sand next to the lil run, instead of IN the coop ahe spent so much time digging around in? She's a dominique, was born/hatched May 17th so about 19 weeks old. We have 2 others same...
  12. Marigold555

    About to start laying?

    Hello there, I have four, 19 week old Rhode Island Red hens. About a week or two ago they started to get super agitated, extra squaky, no matter how many treats I give them (kale, watermellon, sunflower seeds, meal worms) it doesn't seem to be enough (and might be making them...
  13. K

    Not sure why my chickens & ducks aren't laying?

    This has been an ongoing issue. My 3 chickens have been unreliable with laying for months, sometimes almost going a week without one. Since spring has started to return, we've started to see about 1-2 eggs a day now. I have 3 new adult laying muscovy ducks. They arrived 2 weeks ago. So far...
  14. Countryhippie

    Double Yoke Eggs

    Hello everyone. I had a quick question regarding double yolk eggs. Every time I get an egg from one of my hens they come out with two yolks. Is this okay for her or is it going to hurt her? I was just wondering if there was something I was doing or feeding them that causes this? I do feed my...
  15. spiritpots

    Pullets laying outside of the coop - what to do?

    I hope someone can help me as I have not had this problem before! I have four pullets and a couple have just begun to lay over the past three days. Although they have been checking out the nesting boxes in the coop, they have started laying their first eggs outside in a corner by a tall wooden...
  16. K

    New hen quit laying halfway through. Reason to worry?

    Last week we brought home 3 new girls to add to our flock of only 2. One was already squatting and has a very red comb and wattles. We figured she would likely lay soon but were not aware whether she already was or not. Well, we found our first egg from them last night. We assumed it was her...
  17. Oloughlin65

    Auracan Laying Broken Eggs

    My Auracana has been in our flock of four, for about 3 years. It is possibly inbred (it is hard to find the Auracana breed where I live) and is laying eggs broken on contact. The shell is soft and very smooth but broken on contact. I am fairly sure that the eggs are not broken by the others as...
  18. B

    My Duck stopped laying

    Lmk if this should be posted somewhere else! :) Context: I own two female ducks, one (Shortcake) a khaki campbell and the other one (Muddy) I believe a khaki campbell and rouen mix (her feathers are almost exactly like a rouen except without the patterning around the head, and as a duckling she...
    • Bedlamateur
    • Thread
    • egg egg abnormalities egg advice laying laying behavior
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. Harmoni

    Not laying in nest box

    My one golden comet who has been laying for 2 weeks now has left an egg outside of nest boxes 2 mornings on a row. Yesterday morning, on the landing in front of the nest box and this morning on the poop board. How do I fix this? We have 3 laying hens, one broody with her 2 chicks and 4 9...
  20. amynw

    Chicken is just dropping out soft eggs?

    Hello, I have a 21 week old Midnight Majesty Maran along with 12 other assorted chickens. Theyve been laying for a few weeks now. Recently, I have watched her have 3 soft eggs. When I say she has them, she just drops them out. Whatever shes doing, they just drop out. She doesnt squak and make...
    • amynw
    • Thread
    • chicken egg egg abnormalities egg behavior layers laying laying behavior midnight black majestic marans soft eggs yolk
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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