After a night outside alone, no eggs for two weeks.

Anna_MN

Chirping
8 Years
Dec 4, 2011
332
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Princeton, MN
Ms.Chanty is my favorite chicken in my flock. She is an Easter Egger. Her favorite place to lay her eggs is 6 ft. over the fence, 200ft down the trail into the woods, and deep inside a wild black berry patch where she has made a nest. She was laying her eggs there for weeks every single day around the exact same time. Then one night she jumped over the fence again to eat out of the garden and she went unnoticed when the flock was being locked up for the night. She stayed out all night and wasn't discovered until 10am the next day. She was soaking wet because it poured that night. She hasn't had any desire to fly over the fence to her favorite spot in over two weeks. I have 5 easter eggers and have only been getting 3 or 4 eggs a day. Ms. Chanty's are sky blue and the other are an olive green color so I know she hasn't laid. I have searched high and low in the run to find any nook or cranny she might be laying her eggs. I'm starting to worry now. She laid an egg every day for almost three weeks in that black berry patch nest and now nothing. What's the deal? Was she that traumatized? I've tried letting her out and bringing her to her nest but she has no interest. Please help!
 
The experience of that night may have stressed her. Some times it takes a couple of weeks to get back to normal. That and EEs are not the equal of production layers. She could be taking a break that can last weeks.
 

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