BIRDS LAY WHEN THEY WANT TO LAY!

[kees]

The weirdest thing is that I had a Silkie chicken who wasn't more than a year and a half old last year and she was laying almost every day and broody, sitting on rocks and such, and now she hasn't even laid one egg this year! Any ideas why?

 

[Morning Dove]

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So, what is that ancient laying prayer?

Also, would moving the hens from the old coop to the new coop delay laying? The coops are right by each other.

Dove

 

[cat]

don't know how to break the news to you PouletsDeCajun but I did the dance, said the prayer, squeezed them then shook them AND made them aluminum foil coats.............................and finally an egg this morning!

guess there is something to the whole chicken voodoo thing after all.

 

[gritsar]

If nobody asked the why are my chickens not laying? or the how can I tell which ones of my day old chicks are roos? or any of the other zillion questions that occur to newbies, we'd all be out of a job here on BYC.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Because she is a Silkie! LOL

For the last two months my birds start laying and give me eggs daily. Then a week later they quit. Then two weeks later they start laying again, and then a week later they quit. Then they'd start up again... Up until two days ago I was getting almost 8 eggs a day from ALL of my varieties.

Today..... ONE SINGLE EGG! Seems like they are taking a hiatus again.....

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Call me selfish, but I've worked hard to gain the experience and knowledge that I have. Why should anyone spend their time reading, researching, and learning, only to have someone come in as a "newbie" and cheat off of our homework? It would be different if it were brain surgery and information and experience isn't as free flowing, but its not. ALL of the necessary basic information is there..... right at their fingertips, but STILL it easier to ask for someone elses homework, than to do their own. Do they even realize that in the time it takes them to post a basic question, and wait for replies, the probably could have answered their own question with DETAILED information with a simple self initiated search?

I'm not asking them to diagram the digestive system of a chicken and define the scientific terms associated. I'm just asking for them to know what a chicken is.........

Perhaps I just have a distorted view of things....

Call me crotchety, but thats my opinion.....

 

[HorseFeathers]

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Really? You do that?

just kidding.

Yep. I think that this and "is this a roo or pullet" are the 2 most commonly asked questions on BYC. However, the point of lay ought to be somewhere around 20-25 weeks- give or take a few MONTHS...

Silly birdies.

 

[kodiakchicken]

Sounds like some of your pullets have an attitude similar to a certain 12 year old being discussed elsewhere on this forum!

The are old enough to do what they want, even if that means NOT laying eggs!

 

[HorseFeathers]

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You mean this one https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=98427 or me? *big puppydog eyes*

 

[dancingbear]

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Call me selfish, but I've worked hard to gain the experience and knowledge that I have. Why should anyone spend their time reading, researching, and learning, only to have someone come in as a "newbie" and cheat off of our homework? It would be different if it were brain surgery and information and experience isn't as free flowing, but its not. ALL of the necessary basic information is there..... right at their fingertips, but STILL it easier to ask for someone elses homework, than to do their own. Do they even realize that in the time it takes them to post a basic question, and wait for replies, the probably could have answered their own question with DETAILED information with a simple self initiated search?

I'm not asking them to diagram the digestive system of a chicken and define the scientific terms associated. I'm just asking for them to know what a chicken is.........

Perhaps I just have a distorted view of things....

Call me crotchety, but thats my opinion.....

Well...ok. "Crotchety!"

Seriously, I understand. Many times, I see the same questions over and over, when the posters could have looked at several threads on the very first page of threads in the section, and gotten the answer about 50 times. Without even using the search.

Sometimes I wonder why on earth a person would start keeping chickens or any other live creature, without at least reading a book or even an article on the subject. Sometimes even a breed description in a poultry catalog would've answered the question.