A couple hours can shut them down from laying.........egg are 90% water....could last a few weeks.
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A couple hours can shut them down from laying.........egg are 90% water....could last a few weeks.
Yes, I do, and am glad you see the humor too. ;-)I hope you see the humor in stating an answer that says; "sometimes there is no answer". Why say anything then?
try a different feed maybe, or add a supplement that is attributed to help boost laying, like sea buck 7 or omega egg maker or feather fixer or meat bird starter grower.
Sorry, I couldn't help you.
If you put a light in the coop/run to get more eggs in wintertime, the chicks will stop laying eggs earlier in their live. A hen in natural conditions can lay eggs untill they are approx. 4 or 5 years old. If you light in wintertime to keep the production going the hen probably will stop when 3 years old (in general that is).
A broody Wyandotte or Silky hen is very common. There are more breeds that go broody quit often. A broody hen stops laying after a couple of days (when there are enough eggs) and if you let her stay on infertile eggs for weeks her conditions weakens and she easily gets sick. Better to make her unbroody. If you consider to hatch chuickens you best do this after 2or 3 days/as soon as it is clear that she is definitely broody.
Some chickens are easier to make unbroody then others. The cage with air underneath works very well but is not nescacerry for some breeds. I just close the small coop with the laying nests at night, so they have tto sleep in the covered and protected run (south allways open and east sides open all summertime) . This is the place my chickens prefer to sleep summer and winter.