Help please! New chicken stopped laying eggs

[diamondie]

I got an amaracouna about 4 weeks ago at a local farm. I was told she was about 6-7 months. When I got her she layed an egg the next day but nothing since then. She seems to have made herself at home and is getting along with the other 3 chickens. They are all laying eggs. We live in FL so it's warm and more light. They have access to purina layette pellets all day and access to the outside all day. I don't know what why she has stopped laying, is there anything I can do? She looks healthy.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Just keep doing what you're doing.
Temperature doesn't matter but declining day length does.
Combine that with the stress of moving and trying to negotiate the new flock dynamics. We're 3 weeks from the winter solstice.
She should start back up in a month.

Imagine if you were taken to another house far from your home to live with another group of people you didn't know and didn't recognize any of your surroundings. Lots of potential for stress there.

 

[aart]

access to the outside all day

As in free ranging?
She may be laying out in range area.

That first egg was in process before you moved her, stress from move kept her from releasing another ova.

 

[diamondie]

Well they they have a run area outside and I would be able to find the eggs there.

 

[Derry-NH]

I got an amaracouna about 4 weeks ago at a local farm. I was told she was about 6-7 months. When I got her she layed an egg the next day but nothing since then. She seems to have made herself at home and is getting along with the other 3 chickens. They are all laying eggs. We live in FL so it's warm and more light. They have access to purina layette pellets all day and access to the outside all day. I don't know what why she has stopped laying, is there anything I can do? She looks healthy.

 

[Derry-NH]

I had the same problem with six new chickens. I put a small light bulb inside the coop on a timer and since it's winter time I added four hours in the morning and for hours at night from sunup and sundown. Here's my results.
November. Count
26. 3
27. 3
28. 3
29. 1
30. 2
December 1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 2
6. 2
7. 2
Start new light system
8. 3
9. 4
10. 6
11. 3
12. 5
13. 5
14. 5
15. 3
16. 6
17. 6
18. 6
19. 5

 

[aart]

I put a small light bulb inside the coop on a timer and since it's winter time I added four hours in the morning and for hours at night from sunup and sundown.

So 8 hours added total?
Not sure where you live, but that would be about 17 hours here-much more than needed.
How old are these birds?

 

[Derry-NH]

So 8 hours added total?
Not sure where you live, but that would be about 17 hours here-much more than needed.
How old are these birds?

I got these birds this spring and I live in Southern New Hampshire. So I don't know if it's too much light but I really like the results. Because now I'm getting more eggs than I did in the middle of the summer. I got 6 last night. And I only got six one time during the whole summer.