Welcome to BYC! Your hens aren't getting any protein, maybe. My hens have abruptly cut off production for a while now. I am getting herring meal for them. It really works!
The Barred Rocks are around 3 months old, but I have a Famoye (Or however you spell it) cockerel who's 7 weeks old and he's just crowing away. The Orpington is almost an adult and he isn't either, I guess it does take longer for some!
I have three Barred Rock Cockerels that are around the same age as my other crowing roosters and they still don't crow. They are cocks for sure, sickles, saddle, and hackle feathers all in order. My other Barred Rocks where bought as adults, so I never actually saw them grow. My four month old...
The flicking the head is, in most cases, a sign of pain in the interior. Like I said, I have had it before, but unfortunately they all died from it. Try doing the egg binding procedure and see what happens.
I don't know...the flicking was associated with a disease. She could have caught it from dander blowing form an other farm. That's how I lost Queeny, the ISA Brown. I hope it is egg binding! That's what might of happened to my ISA, I am guessing. You better find something out quickly because I...
I am always putting my Rhode Islands, Barred Rocks, and Buff Orpingtons to bed because they are the only breeds that don't like the coop. Some chickens have naps during the day and don't eat much so they stay out at night to get something.