Large BR Pullet about to be 36 weeks and hasn't laid!

[thriftyplants]

It's a girl.
I was not expecting the vent photo.

HAHA sorry! Probably not even necessary but hey I figured if it could help

 

[thriftyplants]

She/he is really pretty and rather patient. I love the eyeball in the lower rhs.

Thank you!! She's the sweetest love bug to have ever lived. Also an absolute glutton.

 

[LaFleche]

@thriftyplants Did your hens experience some kind of respiratory infection while growing up? And if so, how did you treat them?

 

[LaFleche]

Thank you!! She's the sweetest love bug to have ever lived. Also an absolute glutton.

Being too fat can delay or stop them from laying.

 

[britesidefarm]

I’m not sure if somebody else has already said this, but you can check the other hen’s eggs to see if their fertilized. It could be a cockerel with some kind of weird problem, or a hen with a weird problem.

 

[thriftyplants]

@thriftyplants Did your hens experience some kind of respiratory infection while growing up? And if so, how did you treat them?

No respiratory infection, I did have a "pullet" that was actually a roo that I bought separate from these ones that turned out to have worms while in Quarantinea and I treated with both fenbendazole and corid.

 

[LaFleche]

@thriftyplants Did your hens experience some kind of respiratory infection while growing up? And if so, how did you treat them?

Infections can lead to false layer syndrome: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/disorders-of-the-reproductive-system/false-layer-in-poultry

 

[thriftyplants]

Infections can lead to false layer syndrome: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/disorders-of-the-reproductive-system/false-layer-in-poultry

When I got her as a chick she did have the squirts and bad pasty butt. It was like a squirt gun coming out. It cleared up on its own, not sure if that could have indicated some issue.

 

[LaFleche]

When I got her as a chick she did have the squirts and bad pasty butt. It was like a squirt gun coming out. It cleared up on its own, not sure if that could have indicated some issue.

Might be the reason, as " Oviduct dysfunction can occur after infections with Escherichia coli or Mycoplasma gallisepticum." As stated in the link: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/disorders-of-the-reproductive-system/false-layer-in-poultry

But for a start you could weigh her and if she is too heavy/fat put her on a diet to see, if she might start to lay after losing the excessive weight.

 

[thriftyplants]

Might be the reason, as " Oviduct dysfunction can occur after infections with Escherichia coli or Mycoplasma gallisepticum." As stated in the link: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/disorders-of-the-reproductive-system/false-layer-in-poultry

Thank you for this informative link. If she is indeed a female, that is so far the only plausible reason I have seen for her not laying.