MaggieRose2001
Songster
Hi,
My Buff Orpington, Alice, stopped laying a few days ago. Is this normal? She is about 11 months old. She has been laying throughout the winter and has always been pretty consistent. Then suddenly she hasn't laid in 4 days. She doesn't show any signs of being egg bound. My chickens were eating chick crumbles because they hadn't all started laying yet - one holdout taking her dear sweet time. When their bag of crumbles ran out I bought layer pellets about a week ago. Would that have something to do with it? It's been really cold in Maine, and the weather just got above 40 about 2 weeks ago - does weather play a part? I am new to raising chickens - will they go through phases and have times when they don't lay and is that normal? I chart all of my chickens egg laying and so I know their schedule really well. My partridge Cochin, Clementine, will lay for 3 weeks in a row before taking a day off - poor thing! =)
Anyway - I attached a visual of her laying schedule for the past couple weeks.
My Buff Orpington, Alice, stopped laying a few days ago. Is this normal? She is about 11 months old. She has been laying throughout the winter and has always been pretty consistent. Then suddenly she hasn't laid in 4 days. She doesn't show any signs of being egg bound. My chickens were eating chick crumbles because they hadn't all started laying yet - one holdout taking her dear sweet time. When their bag of crumbles ran out I bought layer pellets about a week ago. Would that have something to do with it? It's been really cold in Maine, and the weather just got above 40 about 2 weeks ago - does weather play a part? I am new to raising chickens - will they go through phases and have times when they don't lay and is that normal? I chart all of my chickens egg laying and so I know their schedule really well. My partridge Cochin, Clementine, will lay for 3 weeks in a row before taking a day off - poor thing! =)
Anyway - I attached a visual of her laying schedule for the past couple weeks.