Flock integration

[Jakico]

I have four girls that will be a year in August. This far most have been doing good and laying. I also have four little girls that are a little over three months. They recently made the move to cohabitating and I changed the feed to unmediated starter. Since then the big girls have decreased laying. One has not laid an egg in almost two weeks! They have supplement egg shells and oyster shells. They don’t seem distressed...other than being annoyed with little hyper birds invading their space. Is it normal for laying to stop at this point?

 

[GC-Raptor]

They don’t seem distressed...other than being annoyed with little hyper birds invading their space. Is it normal for laying to stop at this point?

Chickens get distressed easily. Adding new Pullets is distressing.
I had a Fox attack last April, while free ranging, lost one hen. Egg laying dropped dramatically. One of the 4 remaining hens hasn't laid since.
My weekly egg production with 5 hens was averaging 30 before. For the past few weeks I'm averaging about 16.
Chickens don't like change.
Hopefully the non-laying hen will resume laying soon. GC

 

[Zoester]

I tried for two months to integrate a wild fowl variety to my regular breed chickens and they will have NONE of it. The fowl hide out all day in the nesting boxes and hardly eve venture and when they do,the chickens rush them. I hink what I have is green legged partridge fowl, but no one is sure.. not even with photos here. LOL. I am going to rehome them to someone that has free ranging flocks, and replace them with three laying young hens.,hoping that after a short separation, the integrate and stick up for themselves, unlike the wilder fowl.