Leghorn hasn't layed in three days!

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Chickens aren't machines, she will lay as much as she can as long as she receives proper care and nutrition. You can't do anything else to make her lay more. This time of year laying can be sporadic because of the decreasing daylight. Production is at it's highest in the spring. A hen can't produce eggs unless she's being fed good food. You haven't mentioned what they are fed or how they are housed, which are things that can affect laying.

 

[LilJoe]

I know they aren't machines, I think my parents think that they lay day after day and only skip a couple.
As for feed it's layer feed, not sure what brand. And I have a two sided coop with "poop decks" under the roosts so they aren't walking in it.
We clean the decks one, two, or three times a month which works well. Anything specific about the coop you need to know?

 

[Shezadandy]

One of mine is turning out to be very light sensitive. She's my only green layer so when her egg is missing it is very noticeable.

For the early part of the summer I had my flock going out at 9:30am- my coop is in deep shade and is therefore very dark in the morning, so until the automatic door opens, they're in the dark. Well, after many weeks of regular laying, this hen stopped laying for 3 weeks, not eggbound or ill in any way. Because chicken noise hadn't been much of an issue I moved the door opening to 8:30am, and within 2 days she was back to laying regularly. It happened again a few weeks later, though I caught on sooner, so it was only 4 days without an egg- so changed the door opening to 7:30- egg the next day.

None of the others ever stopped laying over the same period of time. This is about the time of year where the light seems to disappear the fastest as we're up north in Oregon, so I expect any day to have a repeat situation with her, though I'm running out of daylight hours.

So, it could be that this one chicken of yours is like mine and very sensitive to the light.
There are threads on here about the right kind of lights to use if you're trying to maximize laying.
It may be worth it to try lights to see if she starts laying regularly- then you'll have a good idea if that's the problem.
My coop is lit in the 2nd half of the day until I turn the light off around sundown, but the lights I have do not stimulate laying.

Personally I'm all for letting the hens have a rest, but I understand that you're under pressure from your parents, so you may want to look into that as a reasonably easy test.

 

[LilJoe]

One of mine is turning out to be very light sensitive.  She's my only green layer so when her egg is missing it is very noticeable.

For the early part of the summer I had my flock going out at 9:30am- my coop is in deep shade and is therefore very dark in the morning, so until the automatic door opens, they're in the dark.  Well, after many weeks of regular laying, this hen stopped laying for 3 weeks, not eggbound or ill in any way.  Because chicken noise hadn't been much of an issue I moved the door opening to 8:30am, and within 2 days she was back to laying regularly.  It happened again a few weeks later, though I caught on sooner, so it was only 4 days without an egg- so changed the door opening to 7:30- egg the next day. 

None of the others ever stopped laying over the same period of time.  This is about the time of year where the light seems to disappear the fastest as we're up north in Oregon, so I expect any day to have a repeat situation with her, though I'm running out of daylight hours.

So, it could be that this one chicken of yours is like mine and very sensitive to the light.
There are threads on here about the right kind of lights to use if you're trying to maximize laying.
It may be worth it to try lights to see if she starts laying regularly- then you'll have a good idea if that's the problem. 
My coop is lit in the 2nd half of the day until I turn the light off around sundown, but the lights I have do not stimulate laying.

Personally I'm all for letting the hens have a rest, but I understand that you're under pressure from your parents, so you may want to look into that as a reasonably easy test.

Thank you for understanding the pressure I'm going though. But,I'm not all too sure what you mean about sensitive to light? How does being sensitive to light change how much she lays. We let them out around 6:30-6:40am, although it's still dark the chickens usually come down around 6:40-7:00.

 

[Shezadandy]

Thank you for understanding the pressure I'm going though. But,I'm not all too sure what you mean about sensitive to light? How does being sensitive to light change how much she lays. We let them out around 6:30-6:40am, although it's still dark the chickens usually come down around 6:40-7:00.

Some hens are not nearly as sensitive to the hours of sunlight in a day, others like my little EE almost operate on a switch. There are multiple threads to read through on the subject. The link below has some good information, especially starting with post #3 forward. The second link is good too- hopefully it gives you a starting point.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/418752/how-many-hours-of-daylight-and-how-many-watts
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1131441/22-weeks-not-laying-yet-days-shortening

 

[LilJoe]

Update:led 5o dat hopefully it's continuous!

 

[LilJoe]

Update:layed today hopefully it's continuous

 

[LilJoe]

It wasn't continuous till now!! Sadly though my other leghorn is molting at eight months!