Do your Chanteclers go broody? I had 2 Partridge Chanteclers, both broody as all get out. One didn't lay from mid October to mid February then started with 1 egg every 3 days until mid March when she keeled over in March at < 2 years old. The other is the primary reason I had at least 1 egg almost every day through the winter. She was laying 5 or 6 a week when the only other birds laying was the Black Australorp that didn't moult until February and one of the Faverolles that laid into January. The PC was going great guns from the end of August until the end of May, then BROODY again, 1 egg from June through mid July. Then FABULOUS again, 16 eggs in 19 days and then BROODY again. She hasn't laid an egg in the last 3 weeks. I'm not likely to get any more due to the broodiness, plus the eggs mostly don't even make it to USDA Medium, same with the BROODY Faverolles.
