My EE hasn't laid in 2 weeks

[bucolic beauty]

My Easter Egger, who, at 3 years old has always been one of our champion layers at 3-5 eggs a week, decided to quit two weeks ago. I'm assuming she's stressed out for some unknown reason? It seems like anything and everything can stress out a chicken.

 

[dbounds10]

3 is a little old for a laying hen, she may just have layed all she is going to....bummer

 

[Jeffross1968]

Pretty sure I've read they drop off slowly, over a few years, not go from 3 to 5 eggs a week to nothing all of a sudden, though I could be wrong. I read a chart (which I tried to find later and couldn't) showing laying over the life of a hen. At 5 years, they tend to lay about 50% of peak. So, if a hen was laying 6 eggs per week at 15 months, they should still be laying 3ish eggs at 5 years old.

Now, how this might be affected by breeding that increases laying early, I have no idea. But to me, it sounds like something (heat maybe?) stressed her out, and she's stopped laying temporarily.

 

[bucolic beauty]

Thanks, guys. I'm sure the ducks or one the other hens looked at her wrong and stressed her out.