Must be a mystery!! Nothing else has changed. My hens are 3 years old and stopped laying every day. we’ve only had the rooster a week, and some of my chickens are laying two eggs in a day!! It’s crazy, we just can’t figure it out.
Nope. The rooster isn’t even incooperated into my flock yet haha. He has a separate pen next to the hens so that they get use to his scent- and they’ve all picked up laying. Them being less stressed with him around is the only thing I can figure out as to why
I had the opposite experience! My hens never had a rooster around, and when we began to integrate one into the flock, their egg production DOUBLED! I think that what the rooster has added to their social hierarchy has actually made them less stressed
