ddawn - several are molting now, but I've not been getting eggs all summer. 4 or 5 months, and only 1 egg a day. The molting and shorter days only started in the last month or so.
I'm going to try the worming and even though I likely won't see eggs since it's fall -- at least they'll be fit...
Thanks for the help!
Yes, they free ranged all summer. But, no, there are no hidden nests, we've been looking since July -- they'd have rotted and exploded by now That was our greatest fear, that we'd find a nest by smell
So, Wazine 17 - 1 oz. per gallon of water. Then 10 days later broad...
We had an outbreak of lice in the chickens this summer, after we came home from the Fair, and successfully got that under control.
But I think there is still something going on with my flock.
I have 6 Large fowl, and 5 bantums that should be laying -- I've been getting only ONE egg per day...