Adopted hen only laid 1 egg since October

[Jenjens]

Hello,

I have a hen I adopted in October.at that time my chickens were all starting their molt and stopped laying, but they all started again about a month ago. This girl, Stormy, hasn't laid one egg since the only one I got in October. I don't know here age, her and the other one she came with (which is a prolific egg layer!) Was from a farm and he just said all of his chickens were between 1.5-3 years old.

I notice that the other girls' comb have all been nice and plump and bigger, but her's looks smaller like when everyone was molting. Is she just older? Or maybe not a good layer?

Apart from being very timid and shy, she seems okay. Any ideas? Here is my beautiful Stormy. She is the australorpe.

 

[SulkyBantam]

I think she's an older hen.

 

[FuzzyCritters]

Probably an older hen, but she may start laying again in spring.

 

[Lorraine A]

She is a year & 4 months old. Not a Single egg.

 

[Lorraine A]

Amercauna hasn’t laid a single egg. She is vibrant and happy in every other respect. Anyone ever heard of such a scenario?

 

[rosemarythyme]

Amercauna hasn’t laid a single egg. She is vibrant and happy in every other respect. Anyone ever heard of such a scenario?

She could simply be a dud.

 

[DatCampG]

Your hen might just be young and will start laying later on.

 

[aart]

Amercauna hasn’t laid a single egg. She is vibrant and happy in every other respect. Anyone ever heard of such a scenario?

Are you positive @Lorraine A ?
Not all 'ameraucana' more likely an Easter Egger, lay blue/green eggs.
Here's how to check to see.....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

 

[Lorraine A]

Are you positive @Lorraine A ?
Not all 'ameraucana' more likely an Easter Egger, lay blue/green eggs.
Here's how to check to see.....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/

Thank you for your kind help. I do know she isn’t laying at all, as I see my RIR in the nest box laying almost every day.

 

[NatJ]

Thank you for your kind help. I do know she isn’t laying at all, as I see my RIR in the nest box laying almost every day.

How many hens do you have? How many eggs do you usually get?

I would agree with @aart in suggesting a butt check, or you could put her in an individual cage or dog crate for a few days and see.

She might just be a hen that doesn't lay (rare but not impossible. Probably not something you can fix.) But she might be laying without you realizing that she is the one producing some of those eggs.

I consider myself pretty good knowing which hen is laying or not, and which color/size/shape eggs come from which hen, but I have certainly been fooled a number of times. Once it was two hens laying on alternate days, with eggs the same size/shape/color, so I had two mediocre layers instead of one great layer and one non-layer. Another time, a bantam was laying eggs just as big as my standard-sized hens, and I was giving credit to the wrong hen until I finally caught her doing it! Several other times, there were hens laying in hidden places instead of in the nestboxes. (I thought I was really good at keeping an eye out for that, but it's happened several times, usually a few years apart.)