5 laying hens but only 4 eggs a day Question

[write2caroline]

I am pretty certain that 4 of my 5 laying pullets are laying eggs.
I have two coops and when it was really cold, I did not let them out just fed and watered them in the "a" frame coop with the tractor below -
I have a big chicken run but I did not let them out.

My girls started laying in November. I am getting good and knowing which chicken layed each egg. I have discovered that one of the GLW hatched 5/15 is not laying at all yet. Dots eggs are as big as my palm and kind of pointy.

Lutzie sits in the nest - I think she sleeps and poops in the nest. I have heard her sing egg song and she is red in the lobes and comb but Only Dots eggs are around and I am home most of the time. I check on them several times a day.

So when the girls were on lock down due to wet cold weather My GLW only had one egg a day in the couple of days they were on lock down.

Like I said Lutzie does her squatting and the rooster has bred with her but never an egg from her. I have taken coop apart looking for evidence of eggs - nothing.

To be sure In the other coop all hatched 7/20 I usually get 3 eggs a day one dark egg from my barred rock and the two SLW each lay an egg. One is almost round and the other is lighter than the barred rock but similar in size. When they were on lock down I got 6 eggs from those three and the egg shapes and colors were nearly identical and in the GLW coop Dots eggs look similar too. I have even taken just as Dot's laid them and waited to see if Lutzie layed a similar shaped egg.

I have seen Lutzie go to the coop run up the ladder and sit in a nest but I never see any eggs.

Any advice?

Perplexed
Caroline

 

[chickletranch]

We had a buff orpington hen who layed a few eggs, then stopped at 6 months old. She lived to be 4 years old. She had an cyst in her ovaduct, which prevented her from laying. She was just fine until she had a bout with ILT, and the respiratory distress combined with the cyst was too much for her. Sometimes hens have reproductive
issues that effect laying. I would check her out...feel to see if the area below her vent on her underside is squishy or hard. Squishiness can indicate fluid, a hard feeling can mean a cyst or tumor.

Best,
Lynn