Here’s Why Your Chickens Aren’t Laying (and what you can do about it)
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
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I love how non judgemental you are!! Some chicken people are very critical towards anyone that doesn't raise chickens the way that they do. I don't use light in the winter either, but other people have reasons why they do, and you don't make them feel bad for it. You are so encouraging! You're my favorite backyard chicken educator!🤗❤️🐔🐥🐓
Thank you! ❤️
Especially on Backyard Chickens. I barely get on there because of that attitude.
Omg I’m such a fan of Bubble Butt. I have a hen that’s jumped a 6ft fence to try to get inside because she knows the “chicken hospital” has the best best box. 😅
Good morning! Yes raining down here in the valley also. I haven't had eggs for months, months. I have one Buffy and an Old English game fowl left in my flock. Others have passed from old age. All of my flock are orphans and I have no idea how old these girls are but it's all okay! They are my girls! I spoil them rotten eggs or no eggs!
Thank you for the videos.. I have raised chickens 🐓 for six years but thinking 🤔 about quitting. I can’t handle it when they get sick and die.. it devastates me 😢
I’m so sorry, It must be so hard losing them.. I’m a first time chicken mom, I adore my girls and I’m dreading the day this comes.. will devastate me too
It breaks my heart, too.. but we must remember that the joy of having these sweet little creatures, far outweighs the pain of losing them when it’s time xx No good thing lasts forever ❤
I bought heritage birds on purpose because of this. They just are healthier and live like ten years. Also feed a bit of meat too. The feed stores are making the feed cheaply. It used to have fish meal in it.
I completely understand. Even I think about throwing in the towel on occasion (but of course I don’t). You have to do what’s best for you. ❤️
I can’t live without chickens 🥺
I changed feed stores and eggs came back . I like heritage birds. My production birds died young with problems. My heritage ones are just healthier.
This is my second year of being a chicken keeper.
Thanks to you I have healthy happy chickens.❤❤❤
Little BubbleButt is a darling! I'm heartened to hear how old she got. My homebound lifestyle with my birds has winnowed down my pool of friends to give eggs to. Even though I only have three layers, the egg bowl in my kitchen is always brimming. Little Squatch had an infection in her egger last year--the vet took an x-ray and found no problems, but she hasn't laid an egg in a year. I'm fine with that--I keep my birds to soothe my mind, not to make me henfruit. My neighbor got four hens though they don't eat eggs much, so our corner of the neighborhood will be positively lousy with freakin' eggs!
I have a TON of eggs- I have 3 Easter Eggers and 1 Speckled Sussex and I get from 2-4 eggs day now! It's SO egg-citing! They are starting a small molt- not a lot though. But it's like they are competing with each other and in and out of the coop all day!! I know, I expect them to slow down soon-with winter coming on- but I am in the hay days of new layers!! And I am celebrating! WOOT!
I put my chickens down though so much stress for 5 weeks when we moved out of state and my girls still gave me eggs everyday they are troopers I love them so much
It helps to conserve extra eggs in a solution during spring through early summer when you have a surplus, so that when fall/winter come around you can eat the extra eggs from earlier in the year.
Your video came at a great time, thank you! We have 5 australorps that we got back in April....still no eggs. We are in IL. First time having chickens and my husband and I are puzzled. They have a secure run in our backyard with plenty of room, and no one appears to be ill. Very active, etc. So any tips appreciated!
Edit: they are on an organic feed and my husband just started giving them scratch as well. They also get garden scraps.
Can I just say I saw a video of how you share that you get anxiety every once in a while and I can relate when I tell people that my chickens is my therapy they think I’m crazy some people have dogs others have cats but when someone has chickens people just don’t understand so many people tell me to get rid of them for so many reasons but these chickens are there for me a lot better than those people.
Hello, I LOVE your channel and knowledge. I first saw u and didn't have any chickens. Lol, now I have 8. I started with one, and if not for u I'd be lost. By the way u referenced Salt N Pepa one day, which is funny cause.... when I first saw u I told my wife, SHE LOOKS JUS LIKE SALT! So the fact the u mentioned them u must know u do look like her.
Oh my goodness that is the BEST compliment!!!
Henlo dear chicken mama.from another t chicken mam .thankyou so much for sharing. Yep my girls too are leave ing their clothes all over their house also😂.hugs and blessings xxxxxx
Hi from Newfoundland Canada. My chickens are the love of my life. Lol
Great video very educational 🩷🥰🩷
Some breeds lay no matter what. My golden comets are not looking good but still lay every other day.
Yes I have a few like that!
I don't know why this is such an issue every year...it's normal!
U r the best!!! Love ur videos!!!
Mine have been molting for the last MONTH. lol. I give them all of the good stuff. High quality feed, corn, BOSS, granulated garlic, soldier fly larvae, ACV and oregano oil in their water.
They're still taking forever. Lol. I FINALLY started getting eggs 2 days ago.
My silkies all stopped laying like a month ago but I suspect someone is also eating eggs !!!! 😭😭😭. Going to give them extra supplements though 🙏
Have you ever seen a hen not lay at all? I have a Blue Andalusian I got back in April. She has laid 2 Fairy eggs but never laid again. We are in Oklahoma.
Yes, I have. Unfortunately she was an internal layer and she didn’t have a long life. But while she was here, she was happy!
My girls haven’t slowed down egg production during this molt…you said that’s not good…
Sometimes high production breeds will lay right through their molt. It’s fantastic getting all those eggs but it can wear them out a bit. I would give them a nice multivitamin for chickens and some nutrient dense treats like scrambled eggs or grubs. :)
Our chickens are just 6 months old. I've not seen symptoms of moulting in late November. I've been getting 2 or 3 eggs a day until today when I got 9. That surprised me.
I have a leghorn that hasn’t layed in about 8 months. They are acting perfectly healthy and normal, they just aren’t laying
My leg horns lay every day hasn’t quit yet
Add some meat . Chopped hot dogs or a can of tuna every other day . Maybe a ham bone after a holiday.
Wow. It’s possible she’s laying internally. Or maybe she has some huge stash hidden somewhere?
I can’t think of anywhere she would be laying them. I haven’t seen anything that’s worth taking her to the vet about except the lack of eggs. She seems fine, and occasionally seems to lay a single very small egg
Hard molt- ugh! I've got one consistent layer right now- the other is looks like a hot mess, and the Easter Eggers won't be 16 weeks until Halloween. The molter sure is extra hungry- I feed her a treat on the side.. 😁👍
My 12 girls travel back & forth from SoCA to NoAZ once a month in our temperature controlled hen hauler trailer. They never miss a beat. They even lay in the hen hauler. They’ve all been jet-“SETTERS” their entire lives. They know nothing different.
That sounds so cool!
Wow! That’s amazing!
Awesome video! My quails are molting and very bare so I ordered the vitamins in your video
I think my chicken just need an excuse to stop laying eggs 🤣🤣
The weather got chilly and rainy all of a sudden and they all stopped laying altogether, even though I provide them artificial lighting with a timer for 15 hours a day. I've got three age groups now, five six and seven month olds... The latter were the ones that had just started laying small eggs and they stopped. They also stopped laying for several days following a change of the sawdust underneath. The old one had gotten darker in colour and they did not like the new and pale ground as it seems 🤔... Since my chicken are not free roaming and have no access to insects, during the molting season I give them a few handfuls of trout pellets soaked in water as a treat a couple of times a week, just about a couple of pounds to about 70 chicken and poulets. It contains about 44% proteins and various polypeptides and amino acids, it's just a little support for them to grow healthy feathers faster. It helps. A couple of 20 Kg bags is enough for the whole season for me.
I have a speckled Sussex that I was able to nurse back to health, but now the flock pesters her greatly. She ends up hanging around the back door waiting for me to let her in so she can eat in peace. I'm treating her right eye since one of the roosters pecked at her and this sets her further at dis-ease. She runs free in the barnyard but she stays away from the flock. She does go into the hen house at night, the last one in(first one out). How can I reintergrate her safely? I only have one isolation crate that has a resident with an injured leg. I love your videos.
Molting season always leaves a couple bald birds during freezing temps. Eggs are the least concern. Wish there was way to get them to molt early. It seems like after so many years in the same location their bodies would adjust and molt at a better time.
Mine are laying fine....
My poor chicken… I got 2 new birds (Bielefelders) for my young starting to lay flock… one is a fledgling and the other is 1yr…. (First mistake) the older one stopped laying the day I brought her home …. Got picked on terribly by one hen and the rooster… and now is molting. Her only buddy is the fledgling and she won’t free range with the rest of the chickens. When they go out is her only reprieve for her to finally eat and drink. It’s been 2.5 weeks, will she ever integrate and lay eggs again? She just stays in the hen house until the others leave, otherwise she is picked on.
Aww poor thing. Unfortunately, this is fairly normal. Did you see this video? It might help: ua-cam.com/video/1N4cyFdsYHk/v-deo.htmlsi=B8bneyidQ50TNfMr
Don't worry about people who are criticising other people good luck if they can help my chickens they have main on their own. Long as they healthy and happy we understand each other speaking same language. They sleeping in the tree they don't like chicken coop just using to laying eggs ❤❤❤Australia God bless
Great video today ❤
I’m in Montana but haven’t seen any molting and it’s 4 out of 9 won’t lay. One cant seem to have eggs with a hard shell
You could try supplementing them with some calcium-rich scraps, or maybe some scrambled eggs with the shells. It’s possible they just need a little extra nutrients.
I’ve seen some UA-cam videos addressing soft or no-shell eggs and they found it to be a Vit D deficiency. They had enough calcium, but I think they figured out not enough sunlight (some of them were ducks). I don’t remember how they supplemented, but they stopped the shell-less eggs.
Well I believe that. Since they have been blocking the sun with all that climate change spraying…we never get sunshine anymore. Montana has a high rate of suicide as well. @@joyceohman4789
I have a mini champagne colored frizzle Serama who lays a little blue egg almost every day of the year. She’s always molting & most things just don’t faze or bother her. Her name is Cherry Pie. She’s close to 4 we believe. She’s absolutely one of my favorite girls. We recently hatched two of her eggs. One is a little blue frizzle that looks just like her & the other looks like their beautiful blue & gold serama dad. Then there’s my Rhode Island Red who looks like someone made a pillow out of her, she’s a hot mess. There won’t be any eggs outta her for a while 😂
How do seramas lay blue eggs !!?
I have a Leghorn she was born in 2020. She was a great layer as she is supposed to be. She has not laid an egg now since Aug 2022. So she laid for about 2 years. She is such a sweetheart her name is blanch and she was my first chicken. Should I be worried she seems fine and sits in the nesting box everyday.
Thank you, beautiful
I'm going to share this with my sister. She got her first chickens two years ago. I raised them for her. Then, this year, she wanted to raise her own, I'm so happy for her. Hope you're doing great!!
I downgraded from 8 hens to 4 and then 2 were eaten by raccoons and the raccoons have kept trying to get to them for days now. They stopped laying. They're only 8 months old. I've seen feathers around but according to everything I read, they're too young to molt so I figured it's because they're traumatized. I am getting three pullets. They have lost their flock and they just stand around looking depressed. I also have some Flockleader coming. I'm hoping that they will either start laying again once they are a flock again or I'll just wait patiently until they do and the new pullets start laying.
My hens will lay less eggs as they age like you say. However, it is important to note that the eggs get larger as they age. At least that has been my experience. ❤
I do have a egg selling business but do not give light for more eggs I want them to be healthy they need a brake but alot of mine lay well all winter, also I have 2 chickens hurt by a a new baby roo and still laying every other day both of them on opposite days lol they are separated in a cages area right bow its how I know they are laying
My chickens (Rhode island reds) are 2 yrs old, this year towards end of summer ( we are in sc) had their first. HUGE molt.. I havent gotten eggs in a month...is this normal and how long does it last? Thank you so much Also my one chicken cant seem to lay eggs with hard shells anymore when she does... im stumped.
Yes, that’s normal. They should begin laying again any day now! For your layer with thin shells, sometimes that means they need a little more calcium. Try adding in some calcium rich scraps or maybe some grubs in addition to whatever calcium supplement your using. It’s also possibly an indication of something else going on, such as a respiratory issue. But I would start with some extra calcium and see how that goes. :)
My black sex link chickens are 22 weeks old. I haven't gotten in yet.
Hello Dahlia,, I have a black copper marans that was laying eggs for 5 months and then stopped , she is about a year old and I do not know why she completely stopped after molt
Watching from algeria just subrscribed am getting a flock my question is i had a chiken that was laying evry other day but she got sick and luckly i saved her and treated her with garlic and apple sider any ways now she's getting better i wanted to know when she'll be back to laying egges thank you
You my favorite girl.
I only have 3 chickens. 1 is a crossbeak that i have to tube feed and hasn't started laying but i figure she'll kick in after winter.
My other 2 chickens were both laying well up until 9 days ago. They suddenly just quit. They layed fine even when it temporarily got to single digits (low not the high) and many days in the teens. It's gotten a bit warmer upper 20s to low 30s for the low with highs in 50s.
Ameracauna was laying 7 to 9 days on then skip a day. Brahma was laying 5 days a week. The days have gotten longer (not by much) but they layed fine when it was the shortest days.
They are on organic 18% protein crumbles plus scratch and peck which i ferment. No idea what happened.
How long should i wait before it becomes concerning that they quit laying?
Do hot peppers really worm chickens? I raise hot peppers just for my girls.
What I’m mainly getting now are: feathers. 🤣. It’s ok. They deserve some time off.
I hatched my girls over a year ago and still no eggs. My three older girls stopped laying early summer and haven't laid since. What is going on? Please help
Right now the smallest chicken I have is pulling everybodys weight! Silky girl is workin OT
I have 5 girls and I might get one egg every 5 to 6 weeks.
Dahlia, said to add protein and that could help but i'm not sure what protein I should be adding. Does anyone know what protein helps are girls?
Help please, my lollipop hasn't laid in about six days and she's acting completely normal. Her colors are good ok her comb and wattle she's eating and drinking and roosting, she's not dropping any feathers. I keep checking her vent and she has not issues she has no parasites or anything.
How do you know what chicken laid an egg. I hear this all the time
If you don't have many chickens and they lay different color eggs. I only have 2 laying and one lays brown eggs, the other lays blue-green eggs
Good morning Madam President! I have 2 beautiful hens that I brought home Easter weekend. They have not laid any eggs yet. Esther is an easteregger and Butters is white. That’s all I know about her (Esther crows like crazy). They seem to be grown up hens, but zero eggs. I’m thinking it may be spring before I get eggs. I really would appreciate your advice on this.
Get a Bunch of cats! They scare the predators away!
Also earths axes has tipped a smidge more the usual over a year ago and it has been noticed or not changed and the hours of days light has changed add that to winter dim n now longer sooner .
NO, DAHLIA...SUGAR DOESN'T MELT...IT LUMPS UP!😁
Uh oh! 😂