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[Livinzoo]

My flock gets cottage cheese daily. They get about 20lbs for 70 birds.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

I'm in SE Texas and I don't use lights in my hen house. I get plenty of eggs year round without a complete break. In addition to 20% protein hen pellets I mix my own scratch using Oats, Milo, Corn Chop and Sunflower Seeds. Additional Oyster shell Free Choice. I firmly believe Oats make for more eggs.

Are they molting? When my Young Buttercups went into Molt in September, I couldn't tell other than their color faded a bit and no eggs for 3 weeks, then back in color and eggs. Hang in there and good luck.

 

[Charlene]

Honetly, I am very curious about why you don't have eggs yet. I have heard of feeding whey to chickens, which has a lot of lactose so I don't see how that could be the problem. Mine free range and hardly eat their scratch. Could they be so good at picking the righ thing that they still lay??? I have 2BR and 2SLW. Please let me know if yours start laying.

 

[RedfogsFlock]

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Well my girls whom I got in the begining of June just layed their first egg two days ago, and it was the only one from them so far. Now I see what your feeding them and can't help but wonder have you tried giving them any extra laying mash, and extending their light? Our girls get layen, scratch, veges, free range about 2 to 3 hours a day, egg mash, and they have a light for warmth in their bed. So don't fret to much, they will lay when they are ready!!!

We have a roo too and he doesn't crow either! All of ours are leghorns. I even went as far as taking my laptop out to my roo, and playing a video from you tube of a rooster crowing, no luck, lol.

My husband says every day, just be patient! I guess he's right.

 

[Akane]

Meh I have more than a dozen who could be laying and I'm not getting a single egg a day. I'm hardly getting an egg a week. Some are going in to their 2nd year so they aren't even pullets.

 

[spamee34]

Wow their second year OMG! What would keep them from laying that long geeze I hope mine don't do that but mine are still not laying and I have started giving them pellets right as I had posted my last post and still nothing so tonight I am getting a light in there we'll see how it goes all though they have a security light outside their coop so I don't think that's it either I THINK THEY ARE JUST LAZY! Good luck!

 

[digitalsniper]

I keep laying pellets in my coop, but my girls and the roo (and now a dozen 2m old chicks) free range my 1 acre yard, my neighbors yards for 99% of their food. They rarely eat any pellets and i have eggs every day. I quit locking the coop at night and they come and go as they please. I even had a neighbor scold me for giving away one roo and a HUGE fat hen that were both rejected by the flock and hung around by themselves. (they liked to watch those two love birds in their yard). But mine are egg machines and cheap too. I toss scratch out after work every day to have some chick time with htem but thats it!

 

[pfmoore17]

I posted to this forum about this same problem and my hens starting laying in 24 hours.

3 weeks later, all 8 laid an egg today.

good luck.

 

[beachchickie]

My girls get yogurt and peanut butter every day and have since they were 8wks old and they lay like crazy. I think you have hidden eggs.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Spamee34 Have they atarted laying yet?
Have you tried giving them some oats or oatmeal cooked or not?
Do your pullets have yard time or free range at all? For grasses and bugs.
I don't remember if you said, but you do have oyster shell and/or finely broken up egg shell out for them to munch on? Mine start munching on them about a week before they start laying, if given the chance, up to that time oyster shell is just ignored. I don't think they put enough Calcium in the layer foods.

Not having been on hen pellets before, they may need some time to build up their nutrition/metabolisms. By the way I give my breeding Ducks the Hen pellets to. The Ducklings and Chicks the chick Grower food. The grower food for the ducks and mother Ducks(broodies) from day one, Chicks from 6-8 weeks (I start them on Chick Starter). Having said all this, this spring I'm going to try Purina's Flock Raiser, we'll see how that goes as it will be simpler and a little cheaper in this area.

I mention this because you could have the same problem coming up with your ducks.