My Pullet laid every day for a week and suddenly stopped

[mlabresh]

So glad I popped in today. I'm having the same problem! Maybe it also has to do with the season changing? I have 6 black star chickens who were all hatched the same day. One or two of them had started laying and I was getting an egg a day for about two weeks. Then, I had to stop letting them free range because they started crossing the street. Now, my poor girls are confined to a 4'x6'x18" space under their hen house during the day until we get a bigger run built for them (or at the very least a tractor). Well, the day they started their little confinement, they also started laying. So, I was worried it was because I had to shut them in. I already feel terrible and hate that we can't really socialize with each other now. Anyway, I can't wait to get a nice big walk-in run built so I can hang out with my girls again! And hopefully, before long, they will all be steady layers!

 

[bucky52]

my seven girls gave me 1 egg yesterday.i don't mine as long as they are healthy.my barred rock pullet went four days without laying.it's the shorter days we are having.

 

[Chicks on DL]

I would have nothing to do on my lunch hour.

My 9-mo-old Buff Orphington stopped laying and started a light molt. I thoroughly checked her (mites, lice, fleas, worms, etc.), checked all the water containers to make sure they are clean, and decided there was nothing wrong with her and we think she got stressed due to bad weather, moving the coop, etc. She hadn't laid for several weeks. I started feeding all of them the leftovers I strain out when making chicken broth. I froze it for cat food except the cat doesn't like it.

Figured chicken broth is good for humans when we are sick so I figured chicken soup scrap would be good for them. She laid an egg yesterday!

Anything can cause them to stop laying and as long as they are eating and acting fine it usually passes.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

One of my pullets laid eggs 5 days in a row when she first started. On day #5 we had a horrific storm come through. Lightening and really loud thunder went on for about 3 hours. She then quit laying for almost a week.

I think any change or stress impacts these new layers much harder than an experienced layer. My older hen doesn't blink an eye when something is changed or a bad storm comes through. The pullets - well, they just shut down production for a few days when anything different happens.

 

[Sean The IT Guy]

Eggcellent. I have 4 white layers and 4 brown layers (commercial hens bought day old from a feed store). The brown ones seemed to grow up faster, but the white ones got huge combs really quickly. I had one brown one that would squat long before the others when you touched her back, and knew she was going to lay first. I got two softshelled brown messes and then two very nice, if small, eggs, all over the span of 4 days. Then no more brown eggs. Now I get about 3 white eggs a day (first one that was big enough to meet "large" classification today! YAY

) but no more brown ones.

Nice to know they're all just sputtering up to speed. They're currently 18 weeks old.

 

[Chicks on DL]

18 weeks is still young for them to be laying. Mine took several months to get up to large size egss, except my Golden Comet. Now I get 3 large eggs most days. My BO just lays when she feels like it. Free loader! My Barred Rocks layed shell- less eggs several times when they got started. One Barred Rock layed at about 20 weeks and the second not until 24 weeks. Don't worry, their systems will get straightened out.

 

[Sean The IT Guy]

at 18w4d, one of my browns just layed an "EXTRA LARGE" (65g) egg. It dwarfed all her sisters' eggs in the nest boxes that day. It was probably her 3rd or 4th egg ever. Not expecting that ever day.

 

[Happy Chooks]

at 18w4d, one of my browns just layed an "EXTRA LARGE" (65g) egg. It dwarfed all her sisters' eggs in the nest boxes that day. It was probably her 3rd or 4th egg ever. Not expecting that ever day.

Probably a double yolker.

 

[Donlan73]

Lol...mine also. It's not just a womans job anymore...I doit all and don't mind it. Thanks

 

[Brender]

This is the help I was looking for. Of our 4 pullets, two (I think, but it could be three) had started laying. I know one is a Production Red - she has laid most every day, a tiny brown egg. There was a different, darker brown egg a couple of times, but nothing for a week now. We have two older chickens that just went through a broody spell, then molted. They are slooooowly starting to lay, but nothing regular yet. The pullets are about 19 weeks (Cinnamon Queens and Prod. Reds). I hope they get the kinks worked out and start laying regularly!