Cypress pine bedding

[trexchix]

Ladies and gents,

I love my baby mama hens very much. They are Golden Comets. Four of them were producing 4-6 eggs for me a day, then stopped suddenly when I bedded their coop with untreated Cypress Pine. I put a lock on the coop to rule out egg thieving, but it seems clear now that I have compromised their health. After I remove the bedding, what else can I do to help them recover? They haven't lain eggs now for almost a week. Suggestions, not criticism appreciated.

 

[TwoCrows]

Welcome to BYC!

I am not familiar with Cypress Pine bedding. You might want to ask this question in our Coop and Run Construction forums for ideas about this bedding...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/9/coop-run-design-construction-maintenance

If this bedding was the problem with the egg laying, all you can do is wait it out. Keep them on a good diet, you might add some probiotics to the water to help with the immune system. I am not sure what else you can do.

You might want to chat with your chicken neighbors in your state thread to see if anyone else has used this bedding with these effects...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/26/where-am-i-where-are-you

Good luck with this and I hope you can get your layers healthied up and back to laying soon!

 

[gander007]

Alright

great to have you joining the BYC flock

BYC has a very useful learning center

I just use straw ...



And if need be a little local soil on the bottom to make them more comfortable I am sorry but I have only and always used local materials to make the nest and other then floor covering I have never used wood chips ....



I so wish you luck but do like what Two Crows wrote .....










gander007

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! TwoCrows gave you some good links to check out. You might also want to look into predators like snakes. This is also a nice thread on why hens may not be laying in case something else might be going on https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/423023/why-arent-my-chickens-laying-here-are-your-answers

 

[drumstick diva]

Did anything happen recently that might have stressed your birds? Maybe neighborhood dogs eye balling them through a fence or the sight of some other predator.

I don't know anything about cypress bedding. Maybe you could switch to pine shavings and see if there is any improvement.

 

[trexchix]

I replaced the pine with straw, so we'll see. just want my ladies to have what they need.

 

[roostersandhens]