Hen hasn’t laid eggs in a while but no symptoms?

[Annalyse]

I have a PR that hasn’t laid an egg im going to say maybe middle of summer maybe beginning. If she has then it was once in a couple weeks. I have two PR and the one is very healthy and I always see her in the nesting box. Here’s the thing with the other one. She has no symptoms of anything really and she’s fine. She eats and drinks. But most of the day she’s just chilling around perching somewhere. Her comb has always looked like that and she always looks like she would give you attitude. She has feather damage from my rooster who doesn’t know how to balance. I thought she maybe started to molt but is summer too early to molt? She has some new feather growth. She eats oyster shells when she thinks she needs too. I don’t know what’s wrong. She has some back feather damage some around her neck and her butt is naked. But all of that is growing in so could that be the source of her not laying? My whole flock is turning 3 in March.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

She looks like she is going through a slow molt to me. Her comb color indicates her hormones are offline.

They seem to molt earlier when they get older. I had one flock of older hens that laid good in spring and then took most of the summer off. Definitely had a pillow fight in the coop, so I knew they must be molting.

Just to be safe, check her for mites and signs of worms. By age 3, those pests can definitely begin to influence hens as well.

LofMc

 

[Annalyse]

She looks like she is going through a slow molt to me. Her comb color indicates her hormones are offline.

They seem to molt earlier when they get older. I had one flock of older hens that laid good in spring and then took most of the summer off. Definitely had a pillow fight in the coop, so I knew they must be molting.

Just to be safe, check her for mites and signs of worms. By age 3, those pests can definitely begin to influence hens as well.

LofMc

Last time I checked her no signs of mites. Her poop seems fine. Worms can be found in the poop right?

 

[Annalyse]

She just lays down sometimes when she gets bored I guess. Is she resting?

 

[coach723]

Most worms will not be seen in the poop, they live their entire life cycle inside the bird. Fecal testing looks for the worm eggs, which are microscopic, and are spread in the droppings. If a bird does expel a worm it's usually a roundworm or tapeworm segment, and indicates a pretty heavy load of worms. But often you will see nothing.
If she's molting, that can make them feel not great and the new feather shafts are sensitive and uncomfortable, so they will sometimes be standoffish and stay distant from the flock. They also tend to not want to be handled much, it's just uncomfortable.
At 3 years old they will now have a regular annual molt, usually it happens late summer/fall but can happen just about any time. I have one that molts in early spring every single year, and some birds molt when winter has set well in, there is a very broad range of normal.