Help my hens stopped laying !

[RIR0BCM]

I dont know i just ask the store owner to give me what i want Nothing was written on the bags

I think ill buy another bag of high protein feed and give them smaller amounts of mixed grains and feed on the side and see how that goes ..

 

[aart]

I dont know i just ask the store owner to give me what i want Nothing was written on the bags

I think ill buy another bag of high protein feed and give them smaller amounts of mixed grains and feed on the side and see how that goes ..

I believe it's the law(in the US anyway) that nutritive values must be on bag...usually a tag sewn into bottom of bag.

 

[RIR0BCM]

I know i usually get that note on each bag but this bag doesnt have it ...maybe it fell off...?!?
Oh and im not from the US ..

 

[RIR0BCM]

Update ...

We finally got an egg !!!!!

I think the lack of eggs was due to stress in the coop ......
because yesterday i butchered a few old hens and roosters

And today i got an egg i am 99% sure this was the reason

I am so happy !!!!

Thanks for all your help !!!!

 

[ChickenGrass]

Hurray!!!
I hope you get many more.
Goodluck
Fionn.

 

[rebrascora]

Don't mean to burst your bubble on that theory but it takes at least 24 hrs for an egg to be produced so that egg was probably already underway before you started processing. Hens take time to get back up to laying condition after moult and I think it is most likely coincidence that it happened the day after you processed some birds. That said, removing extra cockerels will definitely make them less stressed and more inclined to start laying...it just wouldn't happen in so short a time scale. I'm now getting a decent number of eggs and have had a couple of pullets start up, as well as more older girls coming back on line.
I hope this is now the start of a steady and increasing stream of production for you.

Regards

Barbara

 

[aart]

Update ...

We finally got an egg !!!!!

I think the lack of eggs was due to stress in the coop ......
because yesterday i butchered a few old hens and roosters

And today i got an egg i am 99% sure this was the reason

Scared them eggs right outta them birds!!

No, not really, actually I agree with rebrascora quoted below.

Don't mean to burst your bubble on that theory but it takes at least 24 hrs for an egg to be produced so that egg was probably already underway before you started processing. Hens take time to get back up to laying condition after moult and I think it is most likely coincidence that it happened the day after you processed some birds. That said, removing extra cockerels will definitely make them less stressed and more inclined to start laying...it just wouldn't happen in so short a time scale. I'm now getting a decent number of eggs and have had a couple of pullets start up, as well as more older girls coming back on line.
I hope this is now the start of a steady and increasing stream of production for you.

Regards

Barbara

 

[trudyg]

Mine stopped laying when they molted. Now, even tho the molt is over, they still aren't laying--I think because of the shorter days and cold weather.

 

[lilmillefleur]

this winter it was so funny because my dad thought they were freeloaders when we were getting 2 eggs a day

 

[hinlock]

I have a friend says he goes to the pen with a frying pan tells the ladies something is going in here tomorrow youll make the call. Next day he has eggs lol