Yes. They will lay on nothing and can get cranky. They don't lay eggs. They have giant stinky poops. I'm thinking she was or is still Broody. You can break her by placing her in a Broody breaker. A crate with a wire bottom up off the ground with food and water. The belly needs to cool and then they are no longer Broody.
Maybe...maybe she was 'pre-broody'.
No none of this applies to her. She didn’t need pulled out of nest. She’d go in for an hour and come out as if she’s laid one. Last week I said she was perfectly happy But then it started to feel like anxiety for her and her behaviour was changing back to being aggressive again. She definitely wasn’t ok with what was happening, whatever it was and it made her aggressive with the others. She started to bar them from their nesting box and the mayhem on Friday was untenable! We both made decision it wasn’t fair to her, them or us even though we have no clue what’s going on.
Nothing was in her reproductive tract. Tim found a tiny yellow thing and a bigger one which we presumed were ovaries. He said they looked like yolks. Out two girls are happy and not stressed anymore. Our CCL was so stressed and noisy but Thursday Friday she was running around crazy abd she was getting beaten up all the time. I have some buff Orpington’s in the incubator and we will approach this very differently. Cockerels will be eaten. We watched a lovely French documentary after winter spring and the traditional French farmer lady said she always cried when she filled w chicken because it was sad and she respected and cared for her animals. But it was also the most respectful way to eat meat. After watching I agree! Her thighs are huge. Definitely been used. Her shape is completely different from a bought bird and the colour of the fat is beautiful!
Yep, yolks(ova) on the ovary.
I've had a similar situation going on here with one of my hens . It's coming up to the 5th week with no egg in sight, the difference is she seems to not want to lay, she had her vent down for a 2 weeks. I took advice from an old post here and put cider vinegar into their feed, plus used another method here and fermented their layers feed leaving the feed as it is in another feeder. Then used some goat yogurt that they absolutely loved. She's back on form in her self, still can't find an answer for lack of egg laying.
Will copy this advice. We’ve just got into fermenting. We did give her probiotics yogurt, cider vinegar parasite treatments the works. If she wasn’t trying and being so distressed we’d have kept on. We can’t go back and wouldn’t want to still be where we were Friday but thanks for replying and I expect stuff like this will happen in future. I did not get that advice when I asked the questions. I felt so alone with it to be honest.
