Eggless 1yr old silkie

[Clilly20]

I have a silkie just over a year old and all my other Gena lay eggs except her. She went through some sort of issue when she was about 9 months old. We think she fell out of her roost but we aren’t sure. She wouldn’t eat and would stand alone by herself just starting off into space. We tube fed her for about 6weeks and she now eats on her own and gained her weight back. She is extraordinarily dumb (even for a hen) and struggles from time to time figuring the most basic tasks out. She is our special girl and it’s all good and fine except she has never been broody and hasn’t once laid an egg. We are ok with that but worried it is an indication of a bigger problem. Is it ok to just have our special needs hen and she doesn’t lay but live a healthy life?

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Yeah it’s ok,and even if she is a hen that makes her no smarter then a rooster,lol.

 

[8 Chicks 1967]

she is just delayed. Silkie pullets to hens sometimes march to the beat of their own Drum. Our girl Layla took 14months to lay her first one. Now A DAYS SHE IS OUR BEST MAMA. She is sitting on 12 of our lavender Ameraucana eggs now.