Funsarah
Chirping
Backstory: I don’t know if this is important but I think it might be. I have eight chickens. Four I got first and a couple months later I got four more chicks that I introduced to the original four at about 18 weeks, They all get along fine now although it was hard at first. One of the four from the younger group was a rooster. About a week ago we gave our rooster away, he was crowing at four in the morning and we are not allowed to have roosters here in Fullerton. The same day we gave him away we got an Olive Egger that is about 16-18 weeks. Now the chickens from the younger group that the Rooster was a part of have stopped laying eggs ever since we gave him away. The first four chickens are still laying eggs every day. All of the chickens are being super mean to the new one and it stays on a completely other side of the yard. The seven established chickens, they all perch together on the fence at night to get ready to go into the coop. The new chicken is on the complete other side of the yard and hides in a bush. Do you guys have any advice for this problem or do you think it’ll just take time? I imagine the egg production issue is due to stress. I don’t know if I should give the olive Egger back?