Argh!!! Why aren't these ones laying!!???

[Anny]

it's winter, right now my hen who has been laying an egg every day lays one every 4 days, it's starting to drive me crazy too

 

[vicki2x2]

I have some hens that are 33 weeks too and are not laying. My SLW started laying at 21-22 weeks for the first one and the other two within 3 weeks. The BLRW started later, maybe 26-28 weeks, but only one hen, the other two have not started yet. They do not free range but have a nice big run and nice big coop. I have cleaned both many times, they are not laying somewhere else. No idea what their problem is.

 

[Sheri&Paige]

My Ameraucana started laying at 6mos. I have two others, a Barred Rock and a sex-link, who are the same age and have yet to lay. I go out every day and beg them to lay and it has yet to work.

 

[patandchickens]

I don't see that it is necessarily a problem (as in "problem with the chickens", that is, as opposed to "problem for your plans"). It's just variation. Different chickens are different. This year I have the following pullets, all hatched May 1: seven speckled sussex, of which 2-3 are laying (the first one started into lay about 2 months ago) yet the others aren't and don't even have big red combs yet; 1 golden campine hen, started laying in late August IIRC and has been going 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 4 days since then; and 2 buff chantecler pullets not laying.

It's like how books tell ya that it takes 23 hrs to produce an egg so you could never possibly have 2 or 3 eggs laid by a hen in one day, could you [yes, you sometimes can]; or how books tell ya that they need 14 hrs/day of light to lay [in reality, some chickens do, some will lay thru the winter regardless of lighting, and some seem to shut off during the winter even if given extra lighting, judging by peoples' experiences]. Etcetera.

Chickens don't read those kind of books, they just do what they do. You may have to wait a while, possibly even til late winter.

Though frankly I've found that going out and buying store eggs, while complaining bitterly about it, has an eerie tendency to provoke laying to start <vbg>

Good luck,

Pat