Ducks and Chickens stopped laying?

[HollowOfWisps]

Has it been more overcast this week? A lot of people have been having crazy weather. Here it will be 50’s and sunny one week and then the next in the teens and snowing.

 

[MolliMonster99]

Oh okay.
I’m in Canada we call grit ( small Little Rocks to help digest feed that isn’t pellets that has zero calcium
Crushed oyster shells are for calcium intake
That’s why I asked as you did state you used grit

I thought crushed oyster shells were grit but yes, they do have crushed oyster shells

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I thought crushed oyster shells were grit but yes, they do have crushed oyster shells

Well I guess they could work as grit if it’s the Little Rock type ones
My birds won’t eat those ones
It has ti be the actual crushed shells

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

What brand of feed are ya'll using? I have been reading some things about Purina that are troubling. I haven't used Purina for years and so far out of 13 hens and 12 waterfowl I only have one duck and 3-4 chicken hens laying.

We use Tucker Milling Layer Pellets.
(We do not use Purina or DuMor.) I did put them on Kalmbach Duck feed- they did not like it at all. It didn’t help either.
They forage in the pen. We do have oyster out there but I didn’t think to offer extra grit. Will try that. Although I don’t think that’s the issue.

 

[David61]

All of them stopped. How many is all? are they in the same coop and run? only time ALL of mine quit was after a dog attack.
Something is freaking your birds out.
Something has taken or eating your eggs.
Time to put up a camera and find out what or who.

 

[BelovedBirds]

I thought crushed oyster shells were grit but yes, they do have crushed oyster shells

Hi! Haven't seen you around in ages!
Any changes to their routine that may have unsettled them? Changes to their housing? A new dog spooking them? Anything at all?

It's a bit odd that all of them stopped! I wonder if something, or someone, is eating the eggs!

 

[jessducklady]

Hi, Half my runners are also being 'weird' this year. I was starting to worry it was just mine. The odd thing is, all my black and blue and fawn/white runners are laying, loads. And all fertilized healthy eggs. My grey runners are not. I only have one grey runner producing eggs at the moment (out of 10 females) and so far, none have been fertilized, even though I've seen my boys at work. I'm starting to get a little concerned, but hoping once the weather is sorted they too will be back to normal. Hoping it's just that the temps keep fluctuating wildly.

 

[MolliMonster99]

Hi, Half my runners are also being 'weird' this year. I was starting to worry it was just mine. The odd thing is, all my black and blue and fawn/white runners are laying, loads. And all fertilized healthy eggs. My grey runners are not. I only have one grey runner producing eggs at the moment (out of 10 females) and so far, none have been fertilized, even though I've seen my boys at work. I'm starting to get a little concerned, but hoping once the weather is sorted they too will be back to normal. Hoping it's just that the temps keep fluctuating wildly.

Yeah, the boys have been at work too. My cayugas have just started to lay but still nothing from the runners!

 

[nuthatched]

Any stressors?

 

[MolliMonster99]

Any stressors?

None that I can think of