- May 14, 2012
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Hi guys,
I know there is a million threads on here about chickens not laying but this is seriously going on too long now and I've tried everything I know.
I had 4 chicken (isa browns) that were at my place when i bought it, about 8 months ago.
after a couple of months of more eggs than i could point a stick at one of them wouldn't get off the roost for about 3 weeks not even to eat or drink... i asked around and i was told it was sick and it needed to be put down, so i did... only to figure out it was brooding and that i had put it down for no reason!
Believe me i feel bad enough about this as it is!
a few weeks later, i got 2 new chickens (1 x leghorn & 1 x black australorp) that were both about 17 weeks old.
around the same time i was given 1 x isa brown by someone (about 1yr old)
when i introduced them to the flock (3 x isa browns) they squabbled a bit for a week or so then more or less settled down.
a week later we all the fences on our property replaced which meant they had to get taken out of their large open aired pen and put into a smallish coop for about a week.
they have been in their large pen for about 3 months now and i haven't had an egg since the new ones were introduced, except for one tiny egg from one of the younger ones about a week after we got them... (it was only about an inch big)
I have them on the highest protein food i can find, they get plenty of scraps and fresh water daily...
is there anything else i can do or have i just screwed things up beyond belief to where i need to just start fresh with a new flock?!?
it is getting too expense and too much work to feed them with no reward!
any ideas will be appreciated!
I know there is a million threads on here about chickens not laying but this is seriously going on too long now and I've tried everything I know.
I had 4 chicken (isa browns) that were at my place when i bought it, about 8 months ago.
after a couple of months of more eggs than i could point a stick at one of them wouldn't get off the roost for about 3 weeks not even to eat or drink... i asked around and i was told it was sick and it needed to be put down, so i did... only to figure out it was brooding and that i had put it down for no reason!
Believe me i feel bad enough about this as it is!
a few weeks later, i got 2 new chickens (1 x leghorn & 1 x black australorp) that were both about 17 weeks old.
around the same time i was given 1 x isa brown by someone (about 1yr old)
when i introduced them to the flock (3 x isa browns) they squabbled a bit for a week or so then more or less settled down.
a week later we all the fences on our property replaced which meant they had to get taken out of their large open aired pen and put into a smallish coop for about a week.
they have been in their large pen for about 3 months now and i haven't had an egg since the new ones were introduced, except for one tiny egg from one of the younger ones about a week after we got them... (it was only about an inch big)
I have them on the highest protein food i can find, they get plenty of scraps and fresh water daily...
is there anything else i can do or have i just screwed things up beyond belief to where i need to just start fresh with a new flock?!?
it is getting too expense and too much work to feed them with no reward!
any ideas will be appreciated!
from Ohio. So glad you joined. 
