LIars, not layers, WHY?

[Quickster]

I'm thankful my chickens don't know the "egg song". And I hope they don't figure it out. Quiet chickens are good for my neighborhood. I would have been excited to hear it before I got any eggs though, just like everyone else waiting on that first egg.

 

[chooks4life]

Hope yours don't learn it... That's been chronically stressful for many poultry owners with close neighbors. Plenty of threads on this site about it.

Best wishes.

 

[AlineD]

My white leghorns often make a bunch of noise right after laying. Not while in the nesting box, but after hopping down and going out into the chicken yard. Seems like they were announcing their eggs. I wondered why they did that...

 

[lynnc1120]

I am so eggcited! Two of my girls squatted for me today!! They are 27 weeks old, no eggs yet, and for the first time ever they don't go running from me like I have a cleaver in my hand!!! Eggs soon I hope!!!

 

[chooks4life]

I am so eggcited! Two of my girls squatted for me today!! They are 27 weeks old, no eggs yet, and for the first time ever they don't go running from me like I have a cleaver in my hand!!! Eggs soon I hope!!!

Well, if it's any consolation, chooks that start a bit later tend to go for longer.

Of course that's not a golden rule, but taking the time to grow their bodies properly before producing generally means they will do better, for longer.

Best wishes.

 

[Sarah4]

So I have 2 chickens (small urban yard) one went broody and sat on a clutch of eggs until the recently hatched. Thru that whole process my other chicken has not laid ONE single egg!!! I moved the hen and her babies to a different coop to be safer and its been 3 days and the hen in the original coop still hasn't laid any eggs!!! Has she just never laid eggs and I haven't noticed? Between the 2 of them I always got one egg a day for a totall of usually 6-7 eggs a week. Should they both belaying everyday and the one hen was just fooling me??? I need some help!