Chicken died..now no one is laying

[leree1019]

Except for my leg horn. Is this odd? Will the ever recover from their grief??

 

[axion_lotus]

Trauma and stress like this does affect how hens will lay. When the possums attacked one of my hens, the others all stopped laying.

But they do recover rather quickly; chickens are hardy creatures and snap back from trauma much quicker than other animals tend to. Not to worry.

 

[me2pl]

kinda funny, last summer, we had the top of our pecking order die of heatstroke, everybody stopped laying.
last fall, a black sex-link (my avatar) died from a border collie attack, but because she was not high on the pecking order, no one cared but me

 

[babyrnlc]

We had a dog get into the coop and take the chicks and the girls just kept laying like nothing.

WE added 3 new hens to the flock and the took a day off. I think in protest. They are back to normal now!

 

[packmomma]

I've had my hens stop laying twice when others have gotten killed. The first killing they all saw in their own coop from a coon, my bad, forgot to close the door, inadequate fencing..they all stopped laying but her best friend never laid a normal egg again. Tragicly she was then killed about a month ago along with another one, on a free range day. Someone else's dog came into my yard and almost killed 4 but two got a way, two did not. They quit laying for about a week. They wouldnt even go outside in their fenced pen for 2 days. Now they are back to normal and want outside to free range again. Just give them time, depends on how close they were how long it will take.

 

[chickened]

Thank goodness for Leghorns The others will come back on line. Chickens hate change. They are routine orientated critters.

 

[leree1019]

Thanks so much to everyone for the comments. Today when I went out and had two eggs so obviously someone is feeling better. However one was cracked and eaten so clearly they need to express their displeasure with me still.