First egg, then soft egg, then nothing...

[Kluckners]

I'm in the same boat.

My Barred Rock laid two normal eggs over 3 days, then a soft egg 2 days later... and since, no eggs for 2 weeks! She's got oyster shell, and she's not hiding the eggs anywhere else.

 

[KerriChick]

Success! She laid a small perfect pullet egg just a bit ago! She was on the nest when I got back from taking the cat to the vet. She came down and waddled out of the coop and dropped it right on the mulch in front of me! We'll have to work on getting the eggs in the nest thing, but she has the idea so hopefully it'll work out!

I made sure to keep lots of oyster shell and layer feed right next to the mexican bush sage they like to chill under in the afternoons yesterday instead of over by the coop-I think they were eating less because they were too lazy to walk across the yard! I already had a big bowl of water there anyway.

 

[PoultryPedia]

I did freak out and buy a gallon of Oxine but after reading up on it (and being terrified by the label) I am holding off on using it inactivated to clean out the coop, and will stick to more basic soap and water etc. What do you all think about it? Sorry to hijack the thread with new info, but it does involve egg laying....

Oxine actually has a very high degree of safety for people and birds (though not for tiny germs!). Despite some what the manufacturer is required to put on the label, LOL! And as the Oxine dries, it is mostly converted into inert salt.
Even the activated form at 500 pm is okay to use for light spraying around people on surfaces or in the air. I carry a tiny hairspray bottle of it with me whenever I go to the grocery store, to spray the shopping cart & my hands, etc. At $1 per gallon when mixed, it's an economical, powerful sanitizer!
I have posted information on it on the Chlorine Dioxide page on PoultryPedia.com, and also included an Oxine Mixing Calculator for making activated solutions.
If you use it for coop cleaning, you should definitely use it activated so it disinfects effectively, but might want to wear a normal facemask since you'd be spraying more. You need to spray surfaces heavily enough that they stay wet 10-15 minutes.

 

[KerriChick]

Oxine actually has a very high degree of safety for people and birds (though not for tiny germs!). Despite some what the manufacturer is required to put on the label, LOL! And as the Oxine dries, it is mostly converted into inert salt.
Even the activated form at 500 pm is okay to use for light spraying around people on surfaces or in the air. I carry a tiny hairspray bottle of it with me whenever I go to the grocery store, to spray the shopping cart & my hands, etc. At $1 per gallon when mixed, it's an economical, powerful sanitizer!
I have posted information on it on the Chlorine Dioxide page on PoultryPedia.com, and also included an Oxine Mixing Calculator for making activated solutions.
If you use it for coop cleaning, you should definitely use it activated so it disinfects effectively, but might want to wear a normal facemask since you'd be spraying more. You need to spray surfaces heavily enough that they stay wet 10-15 minutes.

This is great info! Thanks so much for sharing, I looked around the interweb and read a lot of different viewpoints on how effective it is inactivated etc. and how much to dilute for various types of cleaning so it made me wary.