Are my Silkies EVER going to lay again?

[henney penny]

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how cute! WAIT! that chick with all the stripes! what is it? i have one and it looks exacly like it!

The one with stripes will be a partridge

 

[silky_3699]

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how cute! WAIT! that chick with all the stripes! what is it? i have one and it looks exacly like it!

The one with stripes will be a partridge

ha! thats funny because mine isnt a silkie that looks like it!
here is a pic of my only silkie that i hatched! she has grown so much now and has fluff everywhere!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

If it's any consolation, I have a blue bantam cochin hen who is on day 45 of her laying strike. If she is molting, she doesn't look it...but no eggs and no reason not to have them either.

I'm about to be rid of her due to that and her bad attitude...the eggs were her only saving grace all summer but now all bets are off.

 

[silky_3699]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

If it's any consolation, I have a blue bantam cochin hen who is on day 45 of her laying strike. If she is molting, she doesn't look it...but no eggs and no reason not to have them either.

I'm about to be rid of her due to that and her bad attitude...the eggs were her only saving grace all summer but now all bets are off.

shes not molting.
but no eggs and no reason not to have them either. thats what i thought!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

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shes not molting.
but no eggs and no reason not to have them either. thats what i thought!

I don't really think so either but here's the weird thing: This past summer she was my absolute best layer! She literally went days and days of an egg a day and all of a sudden, BOOM! No more eggs. She's healthy and active, on the exact same feed everyone else is, is one of the coop bosses, and has nowhere to hide eggs as they are locked up in their coop/run until I am outside with them to free range and I literally sit and watch them. Has she just quit till spring?

 

[silky_3699]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

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shes not molting.
but no eggs and no reason not to have them either. thats what i thought!

I don't really think so either but here's the weird thing: This past summer she was my absolute best layer! She literally went days and days of an egg a day and all of a sudden, BOOM! No more eggs. She's healthy and active, on the exact same feed everyone else is, is one of the coop bosses, and has nowhere to hide eggs as they are locked up in their coop/run until I am outside with them to free range and I literally sit and watch them. Has she just quit till spring?

chickens can be very very strange!