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You might also consider moving the birds to their new home at this time because their stress level won't be any different one way or another. They will probably enjoy their new home, I know ours love theirs and we moved them in late fall or early winter during their molt and low egg production.

Just let them adjust, they will be just fine.

With fall coming on you will probably stay at 1-3 eggs a day (or maybe less). With the weather change your birds should start molding and while doing this almost all their energy goes to reproducing their feathers and keeping warm. I have 12 birds and last fall and winter I got any where...

I am in N. CA and it is early fall, but this egg problem has been for a long time now. I am not misinformed about the egg eating. I have witnessed the girls fighting over an egg that was laid in the run, but they never eat the ones in the nests. So that is why I was thinking about the egg...

I have 10 barred rock hens. Five of them are about 3 yrs old and five are just about 7 months. The five young birds are laying everyday, but the older five only lay a couple of times a week. I got barred rock because they are suppose to be good layers, but not these birds. I had six birds...

I have 5 grown birds and chawinnie dog that wasn't raised with them. She would stand outside their run and sniff and they would peck at her, yet she wasn't discouraged, she kept trying to say hello. Well when we let them out last fall, she had to be in the garden with them. All she wanted to...

It seems to be normal. I usually raise Barred Rock or Rhode Island Reds, but this year I got 5 Barred Rock and 10 Black Sex Lynk. The blacks lost all their baby fuzz before they started getting their feathers. They were the same, ate well, no problem drinking and were very happy. Now they are...