- May 8, 2014
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So, first and foremost, hello BYC! Ever since I started raising chickens this site has been my go-to for anything chicken related. So it's really great to finally have signed up!
Right now, at our house we currently have 3 grown hens and 4 chicks that are about... Let's say about halfway there to being fully grown. Here are the fully grown ones pictured below:
So the white one is named Elvis and I can't rightly remember the breed name but she has feathers on her feet, so there's that. In the second picture is the big girl, Scarlet. I believe that she's a Australorp(?) or however you spell it. And lastly, we have Houdini who is a Bantam something-or-the-other and also has one funky 'fro. Unfortunately she's camera-shy and it's impossible to get her to look at a camera. I'll have pics of the lil chicks soon.
My question to you, BYC, is why one of my fully grown hens won't lay eggs? Currently, Elvis is producing about an egg a day and Houdini is up to 2 eggs a day(Employee of the Month!). Scarlet, on the other hand, hasn't laid a single egg since we've had her and I'm wondering if any of you folks might have any ideas as to why. Thanks in advance for the help!
-MilesGuy
Right now, at our house we currently have 3 grown hens and 4 chicks that are about... Let's say about halfway there to being fully grown. Here are the fully grown ones pictured below:
So the white one is named Elvis and I can't rightly remember the breed name but she has feathers on her feet, so there's that. In the second picture is the big girl, Scarlet. I believe that she's a Australorp(?) or however you spell it. And lastly, we have Houdini who is a Bantam something-or-the-other and also has one funky 'fro. Unfortunately she's camera-shy and it's impossible to get her to look at a camera. I'll have pics of the lil chicks soon.
My question to you, BYC, is why one of my fully grown hens won't lay eggs? Currently, Elvis is producing about an egg a day and Houdini is up to 2 eggs a day(Employee of the Month!). Scarlet, on the other hand, hasn't laid a single egg since we've had her and I'm wondering if any of you folks might have any ideas as to why. Thanks in advance for the help!
-MilesGuy
and Welcome To BYC! Elvis is probably a White Cochin, X3 Scarlett is a Black Australorp if the skin on the bottom of her feet is white/pink, and Houdini is a White Crested Black Polish. X2, sounds like they are all laying. It takes around a day for a hen to produce an egg so for one to lay two eggs in one day is a very very rare occurrence, so if you've gotten three eggs a day more than maybe once then all three of your hens are laying. Hens like to lay in the nest boxes other hens lay in, so it is normal to find more than one egg in a nest box.
