egg laying problems

I have a Black Copper Maran Pullett who has been quite the mystery. She layed her first egg about a month ago after at least a week of doing egg songs and wandering in and out of the coop. The egg was fine but the shell was overcalcified. A couple days later, she had a soft shelled egg. Keep in...

In early April, I acquired 2 Silkies from a breeder who was downsizing her flock. She told me the 1-year old hen was already laying, and the other was of age (just over 6 months) but hadn't laid yet. I've now had them for 3.5 months and they seem happy/healthy, but there are no signs of laying...

My female duck has been laying soft shell eggs for about a month now after a really cold winter. It's finally been warm for a steady 2 weeks though and when nothing changed I've began to get concerned. It is her first mating season since I added a male to my flock, however she doesn't seem to be...

This is my first year with ducks and so far it's been *pretty* smooth sailing, knock on wood! My girls just turned 7 months old and have been laying since they were about 5-6 months. At first a few of them had some kinks to work out with their egg laying systems, and switching them over from...

So my hen, Misty, is a three-year-old Easter Egger. She isn't laying, and I don't know the last time she did. She is not molting. I have her on a higher protein food. There's a light bulb in the coop, in addition to the natural light from outside. I put a mineral supplement in the water. She...

Hi there, I have only two chickens, and Rhode Island Red and an Alstrotorp. They should both be around 2 1/2 and 3 years old. Over the summer they stopped laying eggs, first it was getting less regular and then they stopped altogether. One of the last badges I found outside in the yard and then...

Hoping for some advice, I have 5 chickens and no eggs. They're all 9 months or older and it just seems odd. I know some can take up to a year, I have a Brahma, Easter Egger, Ameracauna and 2 silkies. They do free range but I've checked the places they usually hang out and no eggs. The only...

I just started with chickens a few months back. My hens have all hit 19 weeks this week and there is not an egg in sight. I have Marans, legbars and leghorns. I only have 7, but I do keep a gorgeous legbar cockerel in with them most days. Could they be stressed from him? They don’t seem to be...

Hi Friends, My largest hen, lowest in the pecking order, has been slowly losing her feather on the back of her head. Two of my Americanas have lost their ‘beards’. Today I noticed some bald spot on their back side and egg production has reduced to only 2 eggs/day from 5 eggs/day. I treated the...

Hi, I recently added two 12 week Americaunas to my already tiny flock (one year old Barred Rock, one year old Rhodie) about a month after my dog killed our year old black sexlink. The babies and the bigs were quarantined for almost three weeks, then we started putting them into the coop...

O.K., this sounds nasty, but we have a small flock - 9 hens - most of which are golden buffs, along with a barred rock - all which came from Meyer hatchery two years ago. Five of the golden buffs and the barred rock haven't laid a single egg since last August. We keep light in their coop for...

I have been putting off writing this post but my golden laced Wyandotte died two weeks ago from an internal egg laying problem. I am writing this post in case this info is helpful to anyone. I noticed Dottie didn't walk around much Friday and I thought I would keep an eye on her during the...