My Chciken laid no fart eggs...rare?

[Queen Duck]

I have a bantam that only lays shell less eggs. She is free range and eats what all the others eat no difference. She lays maybe three eggs a week. Amy ideas?

 

[ChickNhood]

My hens have been on layer since 18 wks of age and like I said she went to full on production... I have an Australorp and a Welsummer that are 21 wks and no laying yet...keepong finger crossed they start soon!

 

[Missa Chickabee]

I wish I hadn't said a week. Each hen has a reserve of calcium to draw on the amount and time that reserve lasts can vary with all the different factors coming into play. Its like holding your breath under water. How long depends on if your swimming or just sitting. Does she lay every day or every other day, how much calcium is in what she is eating, is she absorbing the calcium well.

And that makes perfect sense. It's like a woman's body providing for the baby growing inside her. Same thing. (Only an egg would be soooo much easier to deliver)

Wouldn't that be nice?

 

[ChickNhood]

thanks for the input from everyone

 

[Den in Penn]

And that makes perfect sense. It's like a woman's body providing for the baby growing inside her. Same thing. (Only an egg would be soooo much easier to deliver)

Wouldn't that be nice?

I wonder how long it would take to brood said egg.

 

[Missa Chickabee]

I wonder how long it would take to brood said egg.

9 months in the incubator.