Lavender Orpington stopped laying

[danielamichela]

My lavender Orpington is between 1-2 years old. She laid about 4 eggs a week, then stopped for the past 3 months when I added pullers to the coop. I thought she’d eventually get over the upset and start laying, but she hasn’t. She has always had a raspiness when breathing and sometimes she gets worse. I don’t know if that has anything to do with that or not. Any other ideas? Any tricks to get her going again? She has layer feed and oyster shells.

 

[WIchickMama]

Does she act normal---scratch, peck, run, walk, etc? Eat and drink normally? Does she have a cough or any eye/nose discharge? Was she by herself when you added the new pullets? Did you quarantine the pullets? Is she going through a molt? What is your weather like?

So many questions but the answers will help some of us with your question

 

[danielamichela]

Thank you for replying! She hasn’t molted, the weather has been Kansas summer weather, there are 4 other hens with her and then the 4 added pullets. The other hens are laying fine. For a while, well the pullets were still under 20 weeks, I gave them all starter/grower feed. But for the past two weeks they have all been on layer feed. No cough or discharge right now, but there was a point in May she had all that. And, it isn’t always raspy. She eats, drinks, runs around just fine.