Golden Comet stopped laying about 3 weeks ago. She doesn't appear egg bound/no penguin stance or change in behavior. She still eats and comes running for treats. They eat the persimmons tree leaves, but they did that last year and laid non-stop. Nothing has changed with diet except I switched to an a different brand of organic pellet feed. I also noticed this week the Easter Egger only laid once in the last 5 days.
These hens aren't even 2 years old yet. I only have 5 and they free range during most of the entire day. I haven't seen any lice/mites. I've put apple cider vinegar back into their water supply. The other 3 so far, are still laying as normal. They've always been good about laying in the nesting boxes and the yard isn't that difficult to try to find any hidden eggs laid out there... especially if there were approximately 15 out there like there should be from the GC.
I've read the other threads posted here prior to this and nothing really helped. So at this point I'm really just venting and trying to figure it out. They appear happy and health and that is the main thing - but it's normal health for them to lay regularly and it's not happening. Any new help/advice out there?
These hens aren't even 2 years old yet. I only have 5 and they free range during most of the entire day. I haven't seen any lice/mites. I've put apple cider vinegar back into their water supply. The other 3 so far, are still laying as normal. They've always been good about laying in the nesting boxes and the yard isn't that difficult to try to find any hidden eggs laid out there... especially if there were approximately 15 out there like there should be from the GC.
I've read the other threads posted here prior to this and nothing really helped. So at this point I'm really just venting and trying to figure it out. They appear happy and health and that is the main thing - but it's normal health for them to lay regularly and it's not happening. Any new help/advice out there?
