Getting the girls to lay...

[MoodyChicken]

So I have breeding pens set up... but no eggs! There's a light in the coop, a half red half white heat lamp. They've got a well balanced diet. All the hens have good weight, squishy bums, their combs are glossy, but no eggs. They were laying before I set them in with the roos, but now they've stopped. It's like they're protesting.

They're not stressed, but they're just not laying. Is there anything else I can do to convince them that they need to lay eggs? Should I serenade them with romantic songs? hahah.

 

[apukanski]

Good luck with that. Sometimes I think my girls are holding 'em in for a slight, real or imagined. They have to lay eventually.

 

[MoodyChicken]

Ha, yeah. But I promised a kindergarten class I'd have eggs for them in two weeks. Looks like that's not happening.

 

[My chicken is cuter]

Bribe 'em!

 

[digitS']

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It was easy to isolate that statement.

Are they breeding? If so, after they are removed from the roos, they should lay fertile eggs for several weeks.

Steve

 

[lowcountrypoultry]

I smell a chicken revolt

 

[MoodyChicken]

digitS' :

Quote:
It was easy to isolate that statement.

Are they breeding? If so, after they are removed from the roos, they should lay fertile eggs for several weeks.

Steve

Not 100% sure if they've made the connection. The boys are all very new to it and clumsy. lol. But yeah. That would work. I just wanted to get some eggs for a little kindergarten class to hatch. Guess they'll have to wait.​