Hello fellow chicken peeps,
I have been tending chickens for 7 1/2 years. I started with 6, of those I still have 2; Lucy (Rhode Island Red) and Ethel (Buff). They don't lay anymore but they are happy matriarchs.
Two years ago I got 4 babies ~ two Ameraucanas; Thelma and Louise and a Cochin, Grace and a Cuckoo Maran, Frankie.
I was offered 5 chickens by a new friend that needed to move. By the transfer day there were only 3 left. They are a Wyandotte, Abby, a buff, Ellie, and another Ameraucana, Ziva. They acclimated smoothly and I feel proud and blessed.
Now to the weird part. Out of 7 laying chickens I have only found 4 eggs in 4 days. Frankie normally lays an egg almost every day but she stopped. Grace was every other day but nothing. I found the little girls' eggs under bushes and in the tent (for yard stuff).
Is it normal for chickens to stop laying just because we introduced new birds to the flock?
Lucy, Ethel, Thelma and Louise, Grace and Frankie, Abby, Ziva and Ellie and their tender, BB
I have been tending chickens for 7 1/2 years. I started with 6, of those I still have 2; Lucy (Rhode Island Red) and Ethel (Buff). They don't lay anymore but they are happy matriarchs.
Two years ago I got 4 babies ~ two Ameraucanas; Thelma and Louise and a Cochin, Grace and a Cuckoo Maran, Frankie.
I was offered 5 chickens by a new friend that needed to move. By the transfer day there were only 3 left. They are a Wyandotte, Abby, a buff, Ellie, and another Ameraucana, Ziva. They acclimated smoothly and I feel proud and blessed.
Now to the weird part. Out of 7 laying chickens I have only found 4 eggs in 4 days. Frankie normally lays an egg almost every day but she stopped. Grace was every other day but nothing. I found the little girls' eggs under bushes and in the tent (for yard stuff).
Is it normal for chickens to stop laying just because we introduced new birds to the flock?
Lucy, Ethel, Thelma and Louise, Grace and Frankie, Abby, Ziva and Ellie and their tender, BB