Good morning. I'm not clear how to make a new post yet, so I'm posting also in this thread as my problem is the same. I got five chicks at one day old April 1. One cuckoo maran has a severe walking disability and is very small, but she lived in spite of everything, and she doesn't lay, but she is our friend, and I don't really care if she never lays, we just love her anyway. We got another cuckoo maran to replace her when she was three days old and we were told she would die, and she lays lovely eggs, regularly. We also have a New Hampshire Red and a Rhode Island Red and they also lay almost every day. Their eggs are small, but delicious. We also have a Gold Laced Wynadote. She is enormous, the biggest of the flock, but she doesn't lay eggs yet. They have a very large coop with great nesting boxes and an automated door, and they free range all day in our fenced back yard. They are very friendly, I would say even loving. They sit in our laps, though the Wynadote is not as friendly. We've looked all over, thinking maybe she was laying somewhere else, but no luck there. She never makes all the noise the laying ones do before an egg comes. Should we worry? The others have been laying for about 2 months now. We feed them hen laying food form the feed store. The shells are amazingly hard. We supplement with tortilla chips at cocktail hour. Any thoughts about what to do about Lacy, our non-layer? Many thanks in advance.
Terri