We will have to try locking them in for a bit to see if that helps. We put out fake eggs at the end of last week actually to see if that would help. However so far we are still getting 2 eggs a day so not doing much just yet.
No I haven't added to my profile yet but were in Ohio. And while yes it is starting to get cold here and egg production should be naturally slowing for the wintertime soon, never has egg production almost completely stopped like this. And when this started it was still very warm consistently...
We thought about this too and we've looked everywhere inside their enclosure but couldn't find any. They've never taken to hiding eggs before, occasionally we'd have a hen that would get broody and create a nest in the compost bin. It would take us a while to find hers but even so we'd still...
Not that we know of, they are in a large fenced in enclosure and the nest boxes are inside of another enclosed coup. In the past 6 years we had 1 snake get in but we still got more eggs than 1 or 2 even with it there. We did have an issue with a couple old hens eating eggs but they have since...
My first post here so sorry if its not allowed or in the wrong place!
We are at a complete loss!
We have an established flock of 20+ hens, they haven't had a rooster for quite a long time now, we have 6 young but the rest are all several years (3-6 years) into laying age. Up until recently we...